How to evaluate a checkers position
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2020
- How do you know if you’ve made a good or bad move? How can you tell if you or your opponent has the advantage? These are great questions, and often times can be very difficult to answer. In this video, I provide you with some basic tools that will help determine the strength or weakness of your position. Those tools include understanding possession / counting, center squares, and mobility.
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I recently re-read the book _"One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers"_ by Jonathan Schaeffer. I've now read it four or five times. I seem to re-read it every few years, and each time I do it brings back my desire to want to play and study checkers.
I just recently discovered your videos. GOOD WORK! They are well done and help to show what a wonderful game checkers can be.
Thank you very, very much! One Jump Ahead is a fantastic and inspiring book! Dr. Schaeffer, along with the rest of the Chinook team, have helped my game tremendously, and the checkers community as a whole owes a great debt to their work and contributions to the game.
I hope you enjoy my videos, and if you would ever like to share any of the games you've played, please let me know and I'll highlight them in a future video!
@@azcheckers I like to play this online checker app but it is 1 or two rows longer what do I do
@@Redemption-cj4jk It sounds like you are possibly playing 10x10 checkers. It's one of many variants of this game played around the world.
@@azcheckers I. Wish there was a way I could play you because when I play other people I pretty sure it’s my fault but we end up with at least 5 or 6 Kings
@@Redemption-cj4jk I've seen it happen before, when there is a mad rush to get kings and all other aspects of the board are ignored! It's OK though, the strategy is still the same whether it's 6 kings vs. 5, 5 kings vs. 4, etc. The idea is to continue to reduce the number of pieces on the board so you are able to narrow it down to these endgame situations.
It helped my game
I’m not that good but thx for the tips really helpful
That's great to hear and hopefully my other videos will help, too! I am sure you will be a good player before too long!
Great video.Thank you!
Please can you make a video explaining how to improve visualization.
It is always important to look 10 moves ahead?
Thank you! Yes, a video in which I only discuss visualization is planned. I think it's important to always look as far ahead as possible. I was always taught, "look ahead until you can't see anymore, and then look one move further." I believe Capablanca (famous chess world champion) was quoted as saying something like he only saw one move ahead, but it was always the correct one. So putting a number on it is difficult.
Good
Thank you!