Rod I don't want to be a "pleasure spoil" but how can you improve your skills in a game that you don't have a chance if you play a certain color?
The game its not balanced but surely between us can change slightly the rules to improve the game thats what i was meaning...
Until now my conclusion is maybe with a different set of pieces, maybe remove the 2 most advance on the board, to have an equivalent set to checkers, id est with 2 complete rows - 8 pieces. But now i'm thinking that, I don't have how to test it... :-(