John Toomey: Games got picked up. Life is good.

John Toomey: Would be better if you'd pick up one of my open invites. lol

coan.net: I think that is terrific advice and I'll take that back to the fellowship and see if we can get a consensus on a first variant & a writer.

!Undertaker!: Thanks but I'm getting my money's worth on BK even if no new variations are introduced. And I'm not so pessimistic about future possibilities.

Checkers Aficionados

For Checkers lovers of any & all variations.

NOTE to prospective Members: If you are affiliated with Checkers teams in other Fellowships, DO NOT change your affiliation, but please still join us. This is not a Team-Based fellowship, but rather its Purpose can be summarized in the following.....

MISSION STATEMENT

1. To promote solidarity among Checkers players on BK, across all possible boundaries such as Team-Affiliation and Language-Barrier.

2. To help support BK financially as well as to promote BK Checkers activity specifically, by sponsoring Prize Tournaments which award Paid Memberships to Checker-playing Pawns.

3. To thereby provide incentive to Fencer to introduce other substantial, real-world Checkers variations such as Turkish Checkers, Russian Checkers, and so forth. And also to add 3-Move Restriction play as game/Tournament options.

If these goals sound worthy to you...and if you love the game of Checkers for its own sake...then please join us in the endeavor to make BK a better playing environment for Checkers Aficionados everywhere.

Gabriel Almeida: I enjoy this site for a number of reasons, but you're right, the important, real-world checkers variants ought to be included in the repertoire of games. I'd also like to see a game/tournament format with 3-move restriction. I'm 'hoping' that these updates are not far in the future.

Gabriel Almeida: It's an awesome game! Our goal is to eventually (soon) offer prize tournaments, the winner being awarded a Brain Rook to bestow on the (checker-playing) pawn of his/her choice. That's one of the main missions of the Checkers Aficionados fellowship.

Gabriel Almeida: I will alter "Classic" to "Tournament". Thanks for the heads-up.

Checkers Aficionados' Inaugural Tournament

Be sure to sign up! Checkers & all checkers variations.

Checkers Aficionados ~ for those mad about checkers of all types!

(Thanks Nirvana for helping me to post a Link.)

Does this mean that if the 50 computers which did this great evil were all linked in a vast chamber beneath Frankenstein's castle with Tinsley sitting on the other side of the checkers board....Tinsley wouldn't stand a chance?

But I guess it'll be at least a few months before they market a program which has the capacity of those 50 computers all wrapped up together on the spot. Maybe a few years.

But you know, even IF this greatest of games is solved by a computer, it is still not solved by the only meaningful measure we as human beings have, i.e., not until a human brain knows what those 50 chained monsters know.

And after all, look what we're dealing with, people. It is an alien brain, an artificial, non-human, monstrous creation with no respect for the humanity & sheer creative gut-genius of Tinsley or any other hungry, wily, desperate, or empassioned player. It is like Hal in 2001 A Space Odyssey, with a calm cool collected insidious insinuating insufferable voice telling us humans that we don't cut the mustard, that we aren't MACHINE enough to do the job right, that we have been weighed & found wanting by WIRES and circuits and metal and plastic wrapped together in a hideous Man-made shell...and it must be SHUT DOWN!!!!!

Now for morning coffee & a puff.

gooner: I'll smoke & think about that.

Everything is the opposite of what it is.

"You should watch Wyllie."
"Why, Lee?"
"Wyllie is wily."
"Why, Lee!"

Purple: can i get invited?