Pool Checkers Library

WARNING - THIS SITE IS CLOSED!

tgf — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:00:00 GMT

TO THE VISITORS - THIS SITE IS CLOSED. THE NEW LIBRARY IS LOCATED AT http://library.poolcheckers.com/

PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER HERE.

The site has moved

tgf — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:35:31 GMT

Be forewarned, what follows is a typical techy mambo-jumbo, pretending to know something :)

The Pool Checkers Library has moved - yet it stays at the same http://library.poolcheckers.com/ address - how could it be?
The secret is that http://library.poolcheckers.com/ does not actually exist - it is a pointer to another site.

The old site was at http://poolcheckers.ucoz.com and the new one is at http://poollibrary.ucoz com.

I simply switched the pointer to point from one site to another. Smart and easy, the users need to do nothing, same address as before!

Now to answer the question why?

There are thousands of sites built upon the Ucoz template, some sites of more questionable nature, thus some providers are cautious and try to protect the consumers by setting word filters. It is my believe that the word "checkers" in the name of the old site "poolcheckers" combined with the word "ucoz" triggered a "gambling site" filter. The new site name does not have the word "checkers" in it (poollibrary) and thus the site name passes the filter and the site can be seen throughout the world.

But what about the "http://library.poolcheckers.com" - it too contains the word "checkers" ?
Yes and no - recall that "http://library.poolcheckers.com" is just a pointer, an alias name for the actual site, providers are smarter and check the actual names.

Now another secret, to thank you for reading this far - both the old and the new libraries are mostly empty, the bulk of the data is located on yet another site - http://poolcheckers.com! But do not rush to visit the site, it has no user interface, very hard to do on your own, I use it to store complex pages like moving games, Pecan stories, but to show them I use a well-established Ucoz interface to re-point (once again) to pages on the actual site http://poolcheckers.com.

In the future I will definitely develop the http://poolcheckers.com to do things Ucoz can not do - but for now let's thank them for the opportunity to communicate with each other, share games, positions, ideas, stories, pictures with ease.

New Mural goes up in Shaw at Capitol Pool Checkers Club

tgf — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:09:43 GMT

Forums

tgf — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:49:15 GMT

I noticed that the site's forum is not used. As forums are concerned, the Ucoz forum is good but not great. As an experiment I created another forum http://poolcheckers.forumotion.com/ based on the popular PhpBB technology, CheckersUSA was built on it, perhaps it will be more popular. One thing - as an independent program the new forum requires a separate registration.

Site guests

tgf — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:15:29 GMT

Today I saw 3 guests on the site at the same time, was trying to imagine which section of the site they were viewing.

The Ucoz system gives no details unfortunately. Would be nice if they registered, but many players prefer to stay hidden.

World Junior Championship starts in Tallinn, Estonia

tgf — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:05:32 GMT

http://ywc2011.kabeliit.ee/index.php/
http://shashki.my1.ru/news/tallinn_pervenstvo_mira_po_russkim_shashkam/2011-08-14-246

Incidentally, the man sitting on the left is grandmaster Arkadiy Plakhin from Belorussia who played the 1960 match with Zinoviy Zirik.

Charles Thompson page

tgf — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:46:18 GMT

You can now read Charles Thompson's famous 20 Greatest and Legends Of Buster series originally published on the CheckersUSA website in 2003-2005.

Till now we only had "The Legend of Buster Smith" article in the Publisher section, but now I re-created the whole thing - enjoy!

old book

tgf — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:49:51 GMT

Someone reminded me of my old book http://cpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/669457048_the_secrets_of_international_checkers in the Cleveland Public Library.

Zinoviy Zirik

tgf — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:02:07 GMT

Sad news from Kharkov, Ukraine - Zinoviy Zirik, the greatest checkers genius of all times, passed away today July 16, 2011 at the age of 87.

Six times Russian Champion, enthusiastic speaker and author of many books, teacher of many generations of Russian champions, he will always be remembered as the First Grandmaster.

Challenge!

tgf — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:46:07 GMT

Black to move and Win