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I learned a lot from games with Grim Reaper which is excellent player, and a fair-play opponent...It was my pleasure to have such friends in checkers section! Best regards Minja
Grim Reaper is having this checkers tournament in July! 7-7-7-7 Massive Checkers Round Robin There aren't draws, only wins. It's a good time to see who is the best :)
May 2007, the Chinook project of Jonathan Schaeffer has solved the game of Checkers, see http://www.ualberta.ca/~kulchits/project/ It is a draw (with perfect players on both sides).
Gabriel Almeida: yes, that´s true. They were debating that at the FS... But I can´t post here the reasons. There are some biased mods and I would be banned...
Purple: Agreed. And there's always the global route, as Rod said. As for checkers, I've decided to try to learn the game a bit. I know the moves but know nothing about opening theory nor of endgame theory. And I'm fuzzy on the middle stuff too! ;) My kids at school (elementary) can beat me. I think in time I can improve somewhat but I think I'll be rated to begin with near 1400 or maybe a bit less. We shall see soon enough ;)
Gr☺uch☺: Well said. I have seen the "cheating" accusations border on the ridiculous..people who have lost hundreds of games are accused of using a program. Some program! LOL. Anyway all such discussion should be directed to Fencer and this board should be reserved for the stated subjects.
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Please, let's all try to enjoy the holiday season without needing to be hidden or banned.
Stardust: I don't really pay that much attention to BKR but I am proud that I am rated what I am in both Chess and Backgammon games. There are games I don't do well in and my BKR reflects that. If I really stink at a game (like go) then I'm not inclined to play it.
I'm really just learning checkers strategies. I think I had a won game the other day but blew the ending. Losing is learning. ;) Oh well, that's what I tell my chess students.
As for cheating (I'm not trying to keep up this dialogue, just a final perspective maybe) there will always be situations where that happens. There are various ways to handle such things. But as a moderator, I can say that once accusations of any kind hit the public boards, there is no choice but to moderate. Even if there is truth in what is said, public boards are no place for those types of post. ;)
I do agree with you about a balance. They are after all, just games. But in finding a balance between playing for fun and playing for 'points, we always keep in mind that we run the race to win. If I lose, I lose. But I never like it. Some say that it's not if you win or lose but how you play. But I say playing to win (and in some cases playing NOT to lose such as in chess and going for a draw when your position is inferrior) is always what I seek. ;)
I’m sure some players with good ratings don’t cheat. They are: Ferjo, Sobek, Undertaker, Faethon, Wismazstr, Fontal... Only Undertaker is rook. Well, do someone think Fencer would banish brain knight or brain rook? I don’t think so. These are the rules, and those who doesn't like them should go...
(I think that's what I'll do... anyway, I've seen this happenning in IYT, Chu thought the same way as Fencer is doing now. Nowadays, IYT is a "desert island". I hope BK history be different...)
To Bruno Jesus: You have nice nick and I think, that You know more that you beyond type. Draughts/Checkers is mysterious game with complicated history and mistery. Cheaters never understand this game! Merry Xmas and Happy New Year and I hope, that we meet in really on-line server. Bye all.
Stardust: Hum... depending of whoe they atack, maybe we should give them a little cake... eheheh.
Stardust, it's so easy to understand all this, isn't it? Misteryo is telling the truth, only "the cheatting business" is not allowed here.I also think Pedro Martinez offended Sobek (well, I don't speak very well english too, and if Martinez have told that to me, I would be offended). But what Idon't uderstand it's just... why don't anyone seems to understand those obvious things? My point goes to Fencer and global mod's: are they sleeping?
sobek: This system is good for the kind of players we have here, sobek. Interested in a position, even if it means nothing.
Anyway, a bad rating system is unfair, but not so much as using programs, or asking friends to play their games.
Oh, and Stardust is right: who cares about BKR? In a "place" where people get happy for winning for timeout, it's everything already said! Once again, "BK system" supports that, there's no option to ask to our oponnent to re-instate the game...
(Maybe Fencer have been too much time in USA, and really catched their ideas...)
Mysterio619: We review and try to delete any inappropriate posts. I did not see anyone making fun of anyone so I am not clear what your objection is. Whatever the issue it should be taken up in PM's to myself, co-mods or Globals. Not posted here.