Excerpt from R. D. Yates, Checker Player Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer, wrote the dedication and preface to An Introduction to the Game of Draughts, by William 'payne, published in London in I 756. That book is the first book in Eng lish devoted exclusively to draughts, or checkers, as the game is called in America - the pioneer of a literature of checker analysis and play, embracing nearly two hun dred different books and more than two dozen different periodicals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.