Play Winning Checkers

This is not a primer on how to play checkers. What its main goal is to teach you to think out your moves to advance your game. I cant say it will make you a champion, but if you follow the authors guidelines you will develope into a better player.

I got this book to help me explain checkers to my daughter. It has been a great help in explaining the moves and significantly better than the other three books I acquired. The attached checker board was a big help. The book is easy to read and follow. I wish I could have had this book when I started playing checkers!

I am a regular at the MSN gaming zone (usually playing in rated room 1 or kings a competitive room) and before buying this book I had around a 1550-1600 rating which is not good at all. So I thought I would try reading a book and see what it would do to my game. A MAJOR improvement occured in my game after reading this book. My rating is now hundreds of points higher than before. I have beaten some of the best players and my recent statistics are 16 wins and 3 losses. Where would I be without this book? I dont think my rating would of moved a notch. This is clear to understand and I am buying it for my checker buddys. The board it includes with the 32 numbers is not only great for recording your games you play...but its great for mail play! I got 100 times more out of this book than what I payed. Thank you Mr.Pike...you really improved my game.

I got this book the second day I started playing checkers. I am now a serious checkers player and can improve my rating about 50 points in one day! This book was really helpful to a player like me and I would suggest it to a friend.

Pike's book provides strategy's for the serious checker player, however, he omits opening strategies. Still, there is a lot of interesting information about the history of the game provided by Pike.