The History of Alquerque-12. Texts of the game. Volume III - 515 pages

The History of Alquerque-12.  Texts of the game. Volume III  ISBN:   978-0-244-07274-2  515 pages --- I dedicate this work to Mr. Joaquín Salmerón, Director of the Museum Siyasa of Cieza (Murcia) in Spain. Thanks to his enthusiasm and generous help I could initiate the investigation of the Alquerque-12 game in Spain.    The reason to write three volumes about alquerque-12 was due to the fact that there...

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My young Years by the side of Harm Wiersma and Ton Sijbrands, Future World Champions - 308 pages

My young Years by the side of Harm Wiersma and Ton Sijbrands, Future World Champions  Draughts is more difficult than Chess - 308 pages     ISBN:   978-0-244-66661-3            -       2018 At the end of 2017 a draughts player asked me to have translations of some of my Spanish books that deal with the history of draughts....

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Draughts and La Celestina’s creator Francesch Vicent (Lucena) in Ferrara with Lucrezia Borgia - 316 pages

Draughts and La Celestina’s creator Francesch Vicent (Lucena) in Ferrara with Lucrezia Borgia  -  316 pages ISBN:   978-0-244-05324-6            -       2018 Writing about the medical student Lucena, the inventor of draughts  and first writer about modern chess was not easy and it took us many years to find out about his activity...

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The Origin of the Checkers and Modern chess Game. Volume II - 300 pages

The Origin of the Checkers and Modern Chess Game. Volume II - 300 pages ISBN:   978-0-244-04257-8            -       2017 I shall briefly describe the second volume of the first part of this book, whose chapters I have tried to write in a simple style. The  ancient word "trecha",  that years afterwards was  converted into " treta",...

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The new powerful dama in the origin of the draughts and modern chess game

The purpose of this blog is to facilitate you several books about the history of draughts. Please have a look on the menu for those books (in English). For example, you can also download the following book in Dutch of 1997, that has an introduction of 9 lenguages, among them the following text in English: THE  INFLUENCE  OF  THE  QUEEN ISABEL  LA  CATOLICA  ON  THE  NEW  POWERFUL  DAMA ...

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Draughts is more difficult than chess

What is more difficult, draughts or chess?One can argue endlessly about this question according to the ex-world champion Dr. Max Euwe. The chessboard has 64 squares, the checkerboard only 50 in the international game of 100 squares. Players use 40 pieces in draughts (checkers) and only 32 in chess. In a full position on the checkerboard there are usually three or four reasonable possible moves, on the chessboard the number of free moves can be even...

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