Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — checkers
SOME VERY QUICK THOUGHTS ON FORCED JUMPS (by Tom Russell)
When it comes to traditional abstract games, Chess is arguably the King (and Queen, and Bishop, and Rook). Only Go rivals it for popularity and fanaticism. Backgammon is older than both of them, and I actually find it more dynamic than Chess, but it hardly has the same following or the same kind of serious attention afforded to it. Only hardcore abstract enthusiasts have time for oddities like Nine Men's Morris or Fox and Geese, and even children get bored with Tic-Tac-Toe pretty rapidly. And then there's Draughts (or Checkers). Draughts gets a bad rap. At least in the...