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How To Play Better Checkers

Becoming a Better Checkers Player

When learning how to play better Checkers, you need to combine a study of game principles with experience testing your draughts skills against others.

Reading about what checkers masters think and then testing to see whether you can apply those ideas during a Checkers game is what it’s all about.

Experienced checkers players have different styles of play, so learning basic checkers strategy not only improves your playing skills, it lets you see checker moves tactics better and develop your own style of play.

That’s when Checkers becomes fun, when you play enough and read enough to start debating your own strategy theories and testing them out online, at your local club meetings or in a live tournament.

Read a Checkers Strategy Guide

Reading a Checkers strategy book can help you improve quickly. Checkers strategists have spent centuries collecting experience and game wisdom at draughts, so you can use that as a resource for Checkers tips. You don’t have to learn every lesson through your own game experiences, and you frankly won’t be able to fit all that checkers knowledge in one lifetime. We stand on the shoulders of checkers giants, so there’s no reason to stand on your own.

Here is a list of six books for you to consider reading for strategy tips. Read reviews and summaries to see which book or books are the best for your playing needs.

  • How To Beat Granddad at Checkers – John P. Cardie & Bob Murr
  • Win at Checkers – Millard Hopper
  • Play Winning Checkers: Official Mensa Game Book – Robert Pike
  • Starting Out in Checkers – Richard Pask
  • How To Win at Checkers – Fred Reinfeld
  • Familiar Themes – Ben Boland


Play Checkers Online

Most people don’t have access to a ready supply of checkers players who are willing to play day and night. That’s why Internet Checkers websites are so invaluable to players. Not only can you play checkers with real opponents, but you can play checkers with opponents of your same relative skill level. If you want to challenge yourself, you can play draughts with some better than you, which can teach you valuable lessons.

While you can collect a lot of Checkers suggestions and advice tidbits from reading books or online sites, you’ll grow fastest as a Checkers player by challenging yourself, taking your lumps and improving through web experience.

Play computer opponents, if you want a purely theoretical game or a practice game where time isn’t a concern and winning isn’t important. Virtual checkers games are a good way to test out theories and wild strategy ideas, which will help you refine your play and become a better checkers player.

Play Live Checkers

If you intend on playing in Checkers tournaments, playing live checkers is the best practice for tourneys. If you don’t have friends who play, search your local telephone directory for a local Checkers club. Join this group and play Checkers as much as time will allow.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Practice Checkers as much as possible. Once you learn a few tricks, play Checkers often to test those tricks out in a real game and learn from your failures and successes. In the end, learning how to play Checkers better is a matter of absorbing the lessons and applying them under real game circumstances.

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