NOUN | a checkers player | checkers players | |
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- As the most recent Checkers player to touch the puck, Vitucci was awarded a point scored against an opposing goalie—a unique feat in hockey history for any goaltender.
- Ryan (1907–1954), nicknamed The Bronx Comet, was an American checkers player who won national titles in both 1939 and 1946.
- During his studies, Livestro was an active checkers player, and became national students' champion in 1994.
- He received an honorary doctorate for his artificial intelligence research project, Blondie24, in which a deep learning adversarial neural network evolved itself into an expert checkers player.
- at that time, and Dake teamed with leading checkers player Kenneth Grover in a Coney Island chess and checkers stand that accepted any challenger at 25 cents a game.
- Walker was a long-term friend, admirer, and promoter of World Checkers champion Marion Tinsley, whom Walker described as "the greatest checkers player who ever lived," and "probably the greatest who ever will live".
- Edwin Francis Hunt (July 9, 1902 – April 11, 1981) was an American draughts, or checkers, player who spent most of his life in Nashville. He was US champion in 1934.
- Antwerp is the birthplace of Asa Long, the checkers player.
- This convention was devised by the French bridge and checkers player Pierre Ghestem.
- While Chinook became the world champion, it never defeated the best checkers player of all time, Tinsley, who was significantly superior to even his closest peer.
- Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player.
- James Jefferson Webster III (born 1966), also known as Jeff Webster, is an American competitive checkers player and musician.
- Alfred Jordan (died May 8, 1926) was an English draughts or checkers player originally from England who was WCDF champion from 1912 to 1917.
- Andrew Anderson was a Scottish draughts (checkers) player and author who standardized the rules of the game.
- He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs.
- Richard Lee Fortman (February 8, 1915 – November 8, 2008) was a champion checkers player and authority on the game.
- This led him to be referred to as "The Greatest Pool Checkers Player of All Time" by the Homan Square Pool Checkers & Chess Club of Chicago.
- Asa Long (1904 [...] 1999) was an American checkers player, winner of multiple US Championships, spanning more than sixty years, and a one-time World Champion.
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