Cours in Draughts

Course in draughts

Part II

By MN Tjalling Goedemoed

Finished 30-10-2009

Leeuwarden / The Netherlands

The diagram shows a composition of Vuurboom: White plays and wins!

Tjalling Goedemoed from the Netherlands has written a second draughts book on international draughts (100 cases) in the English language.
The title is : A Course in Draughts Part II
and the subtitle: A course in 10 x 10 draughts for slightly and more advanced players

Written with the goal of draughts promotion

Tjalling Goedemoed is an experienced trainer in draughts. He has worked with many successful young players who played in World and European championships. Goedemoed composed five courses in draughts at cd-rom. This trainings program containing thousands of exercises is called Dam Mentor.

The book "A course on draughts" is richly illustrated with diagrams and contains a large amount of exercises and solutions. Tjalling Goedemoed writes in his introduction to the book:

"I am going to begin with a warning: this is not an easy course!
The game of draughts is very hard to play without making major mistakes. You have to know a lot to be able to play at a higher level. In the first part of this course we showed many tactical ways to win a game. Beginners need to focus on tactics first, before they can play long-term-plans, or, in other words, successfully perform a strategy.
In this second part we will study the many positional aspects of the game. First we will learn how to judge positions. Without judging positions correctly it is not possible to make effective calculations in your game. You should now what aspects of a position are favorable and which are not.
Once you know what kind of positions you want to reach you can make plans in your game.
For every type of position we show the major strategies. We won’t neglect tactical aspects of positions, because tactics remain dominant in the game of draughts, even at the highest level. Without considering tactics it is not possible to play a correct strategy."

Frits Luteyn has made it financially possible that this book may be downloaded free of charge by everybody.
The book is free to use at school for lessons and also the author and Frits Luteyn hope that people will translate the book to their native languages.
They hope to have more books online for free download in the future.

The rules:
- Everybody has the right to freely download the book, print the result and use for own purposes.
- Everybody has the right to translate the book to their native language and publish without any fee for the author Tjalling Goedemoed or the sponsor Frits Luteyn.
Of course everybody is free to give a big thank you to the author and/or the sponsor.
Their e-mail addresses:
tjalling.goedemoed@gmail.com and fluteyn@hetnet.nl