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BLOCK:
A position wherein all the pieces of one color are immobilized so that no further moves can be made by the player.

COOK:
A deviation or improvement from accepted play in published analysis, especially when it is reserved by a tournament competitor to surprise his/her opponents.

CRAMP:
The control, usually in a corner, placed by some pieces upon enemy pieces
so that the opponent cannot advance without disadvantageous exchanges or loss of pieces.

CUT:
An exchange of checkers pieces, especially when the game captures are completed in different systems of play.

DOUBLE-CORNER:
A pair of squares such as 1 and 5 or 28 and 32.

EXCHANGE:
where the checkers players capture and counter-capture pieces of the opposite color.

KING NOW:
The first rank where single ‘men’ are crowned in either 1-2-3-4 or 29-30-31-32.

MAN OFF:
Where checkers players simplify their position by various exchanges.

THE MOVE:
Is an advantage in a frontal opposition of the pieces where the player with ‘the move’ can force an enemy piece or pieces to retreat.

PERPETUAL DRAW:
Player achieves this draw by a repetition of the same series of moves, deviation from which is impossible or fatal to the player’s opponent.

RESTRICTION PLAY:
Checkers competition wherein the first two or three checkers moves are fixed by the chance selection of moves already established in a list of sound openings.

SHOT:
A forced series of checkers exchanges that may result in an advantage to the player who forces the play.

SINGLE-CORNER:
Square 4 or square 29.

SQUEEZE:
An attack placed on an enemy piece that is forced to advance.

STAR MOVE (also STARRED MOVE):
The only correct move to win or to hold the draw as indicated by an asterisk next to the move in the established game rules.

STEAL (a piece):
Checkers player wins a piece that is isolated from the others on the board so that it can’t be defended or advanced in safety.

STROKE:
A series of moves and exchanges that may result in an advantage to one player; term sometimes means the same as ‘shot’, but it is usually reserved from more extended plays such as when non-capturing moves come between exchanges.

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