We are pleased to announce the release of the hardcover edition of Grandmaster Richard Pask's Complete Checkers: Repertoire. This new edition incorporates hundreds more additions, corrections, and enhancements. Mr. Pask did a complete review of the previous trade paperback edition, resulting in the ultimate in refined, verified, and accurate play. Together with the hardcover of Complete Checkers: Insights, this forms a set that may well be unmatched in the history of checker book publication, and will likely be the standard course of instruction and reference for decades to come.

As always a completely free PDF version of the book is available for download, either here or from the Richard Pask page linked in the right hand column. A print version is available from the usual Amazon sources, at a price designed to recover only some (not all) of the costs of the project. (This is a completely non-profit non-commercial endeavor.)

Here's an example position taken from page 109 of the book. The run-up is as follows.

BLACK

WHITE
White to Play and Win

W:W14,20,25,26,31,32:B5,6,7,12,15,18

Black should have played 6-9, which was the only move to draw. White now has a win. Can you find it? See if you can, and then click on Read More to see the solution. Or better still, download the new book and see all the variants on this ballot!

Solution

Too late.

White wins; the man on 7 will fall after White plays 6-2 next.

Grandmaster Richard Pask