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I went through a bump of the smallish chapters. Mostly I have truly copied Robertie's introductory comments to the problems. Hopefully there is still some worth to having these in one place.

Ch 13: Connectivity

I found this brief chapter difficult to conceive.

First of all, Robertie does not mean connectivity, in the faculty of perception that each man is six pips apart or less from other draughts. Rather, he stresses connectivity as linking your back-men with the quiet of your army.

You need to exhibit a sense of danger – for when your back guys jeopardy getting primed in, or when a unoccupied back man risks becoming a straggler.

Also, you apprehend that fragile and strung out positions are bad (duh!). so are stripped positions or stacked positions. Spy coming time trouble, and take some chances to fix positions that are starting to go bad before they get too homely!

If you need an anchor, then take some risks to get one now before it is too tardy.

Ex: opponent has an anchor and you don’t

Ex: adverse party escaping his back checkers but lacks plank yet.

Rule of thumb: Three back draughts often function well as a unit, providing beneficial board coverage as well as sacrifice chances to move a deep ground tackle forward. (Keep two draughts on the deep anchor and liberty the third checker as a loosie further advanced in the dwelling board. Don’t just run the ahead loose blot into the outfield).

Ch 14: Hit or Not

Hitting is as the world goes right, but there are lots of exceptions.

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