The BlockadeCHECKERS.com Instructions Book features games for Solitaire or 2 or 4 Players. Blockade CHECKERS introduces a new concept in gaming to the 8X8 Checkers board. Game pieces are not Captured and removed from the game! 3 Easy to apply concepts make these "No Capture" games possible. The Backward move Option, and the Blockade and Vacate rules make the games interesting, a challenge, and fun! Determine the Winner with Point System Scoring. The Game Book has every example and Illustration needed for playing Blockade CHECKERS games on any Checker board. A section for Single move, Jumping move, 4 Player games, and over 100 simplified examples with Illustrations that have Arrows are in the book. The complete 128 page book makes learning how to play Fun and Easy! Full sets of Tounament grade Rules with Illustrated definitions are provided, game theory and playability variations are featured, Foul and Scoring procedures complete the book! Nothing is left to the imagination! Try some of the BLOCKADE Checkers games and Options on your game board during a 30 Day Trial Period! Most of the familiar Checker Board games operate through the standard war mechanisms of attack and capture. After a few captures the games can become less competitive and one sided. Instead, Blockade CHECKERS focuses on strategy and maneuvering skills. There are No Captures. To Win a game of Blockade CHECKERS apply strategies that control an opponent's ability to maneuver and position game pieces, cause Blockades, and set Vacating Traps. An offensive strategy must also provide good game piece positioning options or else game pieces will not assemble in their VISITORS area effectively! Consistent, efficient and effective game piece positioning and maneuvering techniques are required throughout a game of Blockade CHECKERS that is being played with or without the presence of an opponent's strategy tactics. Maneuvering game pieces from HOME to VISITORS becomes a planning and problem solving strategy puzzle during games with either 2 or 4 players and also during Solitaire games. Tan moves first. A Brown game piece is moved after every move that is made with a Tan game piece. To Win a game of Solitaire complete the occupying of Tan's VISITORS area. The Solitaire game is Won when Brown's VISITORS area is also occupied during Brown's game ending last move. A Solitaire Win is also a Two Player Draw or Tie! Solitaire games and casual 2 player games will not require the "Make a Vacating Move" command and rules.

Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.

Florida was the third Southern state to secede from the United States in 1860-61. With its small population of 140,000 and no manufacturing, few Confederate resources were allocated to protect the state. Some 15,000 Floridians served in the Union and Confederate armies (the highest population percentage of any southern state), but perhaps Florida's greatest contributions came from its production of salt (an essential need for preserving meat and manufacturing gunpowder), its large herds of cattle (which fed two southern armies), and its 1500 mile shoreline (which allowed smugglers to bring critical supplies from Europe and the Carribean). Florida in the Civil War: Blockaders will focus on the men and ships that fought this prolonged battle at sea, along the long and largely vacant coasts of the Sunshine State and on Florida soil. The information will be drawn from official sources, newspaper articles and private accounts. Approximately fifty (50) period photographs and drawings will be incorporated into the text.

Universally popular, checkers is one of the world s oldest and most elegantly structured board games and on a high level, it can demand real strategic thought. Put your skill to the test with these puzzles all based on the Standard American game. (Federation rules appear in their entirety.) Each is solvable in no more than six-and-a-half moves, and sometimes, the winner even seems at a serious disadvantage at the start. Quite a few of the solutions list alternative patterns of play. "

A well-written and easy-to-follow beginner's guide to Chess and Checkers by German-American chess and Go player Edward Lasker who FIDE awarded the title of International Master of Chess. In the first section, Lasker attempted to present the principles of chess in a simple way so that anyone can learn and enjoy it without memorizing more than the rules according to which the players move. In explaining the game of Checkers, which is the second part of the book, Lasker has tried to design general principles of strategy instead of offering a mere categorization of the examined lines of play, which the reader would have to remember in order to be able to compete with professionals. Content includes: Introduction The History of Chess the History of Checkers The Game of Chess- The Rules of the Game Elementary Tactics General Principles of Chess Strategy Illustrative Games Problems The Game of Checkers- The Rules of the Game Elementary Tactics The Five Fundamental Positions General Principles and Illustrative Games Problems