A thief stealing a checkerboard! Perhaps the checkerboard is especially valuable; who knows what motivates our perpetrator?

The checker fraternity is of course familiar with stealing on the checkerboard. In this installment of Checker School we continue with material from the eclectic Andrew J. Banks book Checker Board Strategy with a position that should illustrate this known tactic.

BLACK

WHITE
White to Play and Draw

W:W13,19,21,30:B1,8,10,12

See if you can solve this one--- it's not that difficult--- and then let your mouse steal a click on Read More to see the solution.

Solution

Notes are by Mr. Banks. We've extended the solution slightly. The problem is credited to a Mr. G. H. Snailham.

13-9* 8-11 9-6* 11-15 6-2* 15x24 2-7 10-15 7-11 15-18 30-26---B 24-27---A 11-15* 27-31 15x22 to a draw.

A---The piece falls. Try to avoid advancing a man, without support, to a square where the opponent can steal it.

B---Or 11-15, 18-22, 21-17, Drawn--- by the Editor "New Draughts World," Nov. 1939.

Is it true that crime does not pay? In the ordinary course of life, certainly; but on the checkerboard stealing is a skill, not an offense!