Excerpt from CheckersThe oldest game in the world is draughts or, as we Americans term it, checkers. Historians tell us that the game was played in one form or another hundreds of years before Christ. The principle of the game is very simple, but to play it well is quite the reverse.My purpose in writing this book is to give the young player some idea of how to conduct a game of checkers in a way which will get him into the habit of making good moves, thus avoiding the glaring mistakes common among all beginners. Some students have a natural checker talent. They become good players without the aid of a book, through experience, but when they at last take up the book moves, coupled with their natural ability, they develop into brilliant exponents of the mental pastime.My advice, therefore, to the student is to get the good move habit first and you will save much valuable time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.