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So, please do not distribute it widely.
If you need help reading checkers notation, please print out the numbered board.
This game is from The New England Checker Player, Mar. 1880, and is also found in Boland's Masterpieces in the Game of Checkers.
F. B. Hutchins - D. Dickson
11-15 23-19 8-11 22-17 4-8 (Old
14th) 17-13 15-18 24-20 10-14 (9-14 or 11-15 PP) 26-23 7-10 21-17
14-21 23-7 3-10 27-23 9-14? (10-14 draws) [diagram]
White wins
with a nice in-and-out shot: 30-26 21-30 19-16 12-19 23-7 30-23 31-27 2-11
27-2 WW.