Books with author Robert W. Pike

A 128 page instructional book with 78 explanatory Checkerboard Diagrams that covers rules, strategy, tactics, tournaments, problems with solutions, classic positions, variations on the Standard American Game, computer game sites, educational & historical perspectives along with organizational information. Data on Mensa and the author are also included.

Champions at checkers, according to Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, learn everything needed to become great detectives. Become a winner! Learn to find alternative solutions to problems, break down complex situations, and keep control of your long-term strategy. Here's everything you need to know to leave your opponent gasping in surprise. Dozens of strategies take you, move by move, through many entire games. Start with the basic moves that put you on the winning track. See how to protect your pieces, get kings and use them well, and block your opponent. Fight for control of the center of the board, set up multiple jumps, and avoid the "dog hole." You even learn to play computer checkers, with move-by-move replays of great recent man-versus-machine contests, plus Internet sites where you can pit yourself against "Chinook," the world computer checkers champion. BIG BONUS: The back cover is a specially designed fold-out game board. Open it up, put down the pieces, and practice all the techniques and strategies as you go through the book. 128 pages, 78 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Hone your skills and analytic powers with 101 brilliant checkerstrategies and come out ahead every time. Divided into beginning,middle, and endgame tactics, each puzzle showcases a different boardlayout, with a description of what's happening. Put yourself in theplayer's place to work out what each game-clinching move could be.There's a tip on every page, solutions, American Checker Federationrules, a glossary, and a special fold-out checker board!

There is a knock at your door. You open the door to two well-dressed people who claim to be doing a Christian work in the neighborhood. Jehovah’s Witnesses call themselves Christians, but it is well known that they do not believe in the deity of Christ. Thus, from this, the question arises, are they really Christians? Or are they Pseudo Christians. If we look back through history we find that Arius of Alexandria was a famous purveyor of this concept. Thus many times Jehovah’s Witnesses are often called Modern Day Arians. But Arius WAS still considered to be a Christian because he regarded Christ as everything possible just short of Deity, and worthy of worship. The purpose of this dissertation was to research whether or not the doctrine of God of Jehovah’s Witnesses is such as to allow them to be called Christians. The objective of the historical research of this dissertation was to uncover thoroughly the details by reviewing four major areas of documents. These include Watchtower Society publications, critical works written about Jehovah’s Witnesses, historical and theological works written by and about Arius and his teachings, and works of Christian Evangelical Scholars relating to the doctrine of God and this topic. This research revealed some surprises that have been ignored by the Christian community resulting in erroneous allegations about both Arius and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Additionally, we will examine the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, which is a Bible Translation produced exclusively by the Watchtower Society. These findings are hereby presented in this dissertation.

Because it all seems so improbable-so horribly impossible to me now, sitting here safe and sane in my own library-I hesitate to record an episode which already appears to me less horrible than grotesque. Yet, unless this story is written now, I know I shall never have the courage to tell the truth about the matter-not from fear of ridicule, but because I myself shall soon cease to credit what I now know to be true. Yet scarcely a month has elapsed since I heard the stealthy purring of what I believed to be the shoaling undertow-scarcely a month ago, with my own eyes, I saw that which, even now, I am beginning to believe never existed.

In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble. When I first saw the sexton he was standing motionless behind a stone. Presently he moved on again, pausing at times, and turning right and left with that nervous, jerky motion that always chills me. His path lay across the blighted moss and withered leaves scattered in moist layers along the bank of the little brown stream, and I, wondering what his errand might be, followed, passing silently over the rotting forest mould. Once or twice he heard me, for I saw him stop short, a blot of black and orange in the sombre woods; but he always started on again, hurrying at times as though the dead might grow impatient.

The failure of the old-time firm of Edgerton, Tennant & Co. was unusual only because it was an honest one—the bewildered creditors receiving a hundred cents on a dollar from property not legally involved.Edgerton had been dead for several years; the failure of the firm presently killed old Tennant, who was not only old in years, but also old in fashion—so obsolete, in fact, were the fashions he clung to that he had used his last cent in a matter which he regarded as involving his personal honor.The ethically laudable but materially ruinous integrity of old Henry Tennant had made matters rather awkward for his orphaned nieces. Similar traditions in the Edgerton family—of which there now remained only a single representative, James Edgerton 3d—devastated that young man's inheritance so completely that he came back to the United States, via Boston, on a cattle steamer and arrived in New York the following day with two dollars in loose silver and a confused determination to see the affair through without borrowing.He walked from the station to the nearest of his clubs. It was very early, and the few club servants on duty gazed at him with friendly and respectful sympathy.