Checkers tips: breaking down common mistakes 

Immensely helpful tips on central control! I have struggled with this, coming from chess. You can control and strongly influence the centre in chess without occupying it, I naively approaches checkers in the same way but you have opened my eyes :) thank you!

I see a number of my recent mistakes in your examples. Thanks for the solid advice!

Just what I was looking for, thanks

Another great video. At the 5:06 mark you mentioned “Apex piece”. That was really helpful because you gave me a name to which to refer to it. I knew it was important but having a name helps me consider it. Around the 3:20 mark you mentioned that jumps are mandatory. Of course they are now. When I was kid, we played with the huff rule. Of course in those days with little understanding of the game we saw it as a punishment for overlooking a capture. When I was in my late teens or early twenties (circa 1990) I found out that the rule was eliminated during the WWII era. However, a more experienced gamesman, unlike a child who views the the huff as punishment, would use the archaic rule as a strategic advantage to either avoid multiple losses or ease play in a restricted or crowded area of the board. Now in the age of computer calculations, when American Checkers / English Draughts game has been weakly solved by a computer to a dead draw, does the abolition of the huff rule still make checkers a better game. Why is the game as it is now with mandatory jumps with out the huff, a better game than the old fashioned one in which a player had the option to jump or allow the checker to be removed?

Very instructive! Thank you

Thanks for sharing these tactics.

This is very helpful! Thanks!

Thank you! really usefull expecially for what concerns center control!

Great tips. Thanks

It really helped me ty.

Nicely described.

Thanks, once again. I am wondering. Which one matters the most between keeping your back row tight and maintaining the centre squares?

Very helpful. Please keep making such nice beginner videos. Openings, midgame strategies and endgame would be nice. How to come up with ideas what to do after the opening and so on. That's the hardest part. As as a beginner, after the opening you running out of ideas and you don't know what to do or what to aim for.

I love your videos

Checkers has been surprisingly harder for me to learn over chess when it comes to overall strategy. When playing times matches it's pretty brutal, I find myself getting destroyed so much more drastically then in chess.

Great video thanks

Very helpful brother😍

This guy's cracked Thank you checker man

This kindda work on my bff, but he know i was wacthing this and thanks for the tips.

Question: in checkers, is it possible to capture a piece to get to the end row and become a king, then make another capture backwards in the same turn? I've gotten information from multiple checkers websites and some allow you to capture backwards in the same turn as becoming a king, whereas some say in their rules that you have to wait one turn after kinging before you can start capturing backwards

Thank you for your video, i'm a very basic player playing online with others unknown. my question is that i'm noticing although they can jump me, it is ignored and they keep on playing. I thought you had to jump another no matter what . could you please explain ? I do hear you say jumps are mandatory !

Hi, great video, I would like to know where I can buy the chessboard and tokens you use in the video. Thank you

Very good video I'm a professional chess player and absolutely feel in love with checkers.

Nice 👍 one

Thanks for these videos, I really ebnjoy learning! I was under the impression--from playing online checkers, which I always lose--that you cannot jump backwards without a king?

Excellent Series! Where did you get your board? Very nice! Thank you!

I have a question about time and tempo. How does these two elements affect the game? I've heard you talk about tempo in some of your videos. I think there's something I may be missing or not understanding. Thanks in advance.

I like this

When making a capture can you move forward and backwards if 2/3 are available?

opening games, middle game and end games are important to control the center?

How many pieces in your back row should you leave to prevent opponents froom getting a king?

In the last scenario how did the red win with white having 2 pieces left? Please clarify

holy crap checkers just snapped in my head for me

how will i do dis i play against computers

How would that last nice win the game, he still has two pieces left?

I get hungry watching your videos....your colors look like summer sausage and swiss cheese....

I demolished my opponent right after I watched this video

Can you show us how to stop Double Connor open, Next video

I want to win every game in checkers can u plzz tell me the basics

please i want to buy that type of chips, help me

6:00 why winning a game? It is draw, they will have all 3-2 kings (i am not sure if more kings = win)

Not everyone plays forced capture

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no force jump

Jaa

Tsk so I've been making all this mistakes to beat em so called advance online player 😭😭

Why would red win the game? 1:27

Moves were too fast. I could keep up. Try showing the moves slowly.

These strategies are not working for me...

Most of the time your tips are vague. Why do you you consider tiles on the far right and far left useless ?!