The author made a great contribution to the development of the theory and practice of drafts. He is one of the most outstanding modern strategists and psychologists of the drafts. He tells fascinatingly about his meetings and battles for the checker crown with the best draftsmen in the world, about funny episodes of their history of drafts and match wrestling. In a special section, we Start the game on black diagonals, it reveals to young readers many secrets of hundred-cell drafts, shows the beauty and depth of drafts art.

Iser Iosifovich Kuperman was born on April 28, 1922. He received the title of master of sports in drafts in 1940. Three times he won the title of champion of the country in Russian drafts and five times in stoccellular. In 1958, he became the world champion. He played five matches for the world championship and won everything. I.I.Kuperman made a great contribution to the development of the theory and practice of drafts art. In this book, the author tells fascinatingly about his meetings and “battles” for the checker crown with the best draftsmen in the world, about funny episodes from the history of drafts and match wrestling.

Stocklet checkers is an exciting game. Combinations on a stock-cell board often deliver genuine aesthetic pleasure. After reading this book of the five-time world champion I. I. Kuperman, you will learn the rules of a complex game, will take a great interest in its combinational ideas and positional principles, and you will be able to familiarize yourself with the best games of famous masters and grandmasters. The book is designed for amateurs and players of the III and II ranks who want to improve their skills.

The book was released in 1950. It thoroughly considered 8 debuts: the old party, the poke, the victim of Kukuev, the intersection, the jamb, the game of the Bodiansky, the inverse game of Bodiansky, the game of Kaulen.

Iser Iosifovich Kuperman (1922-2006) - Soviet and American shashist (Russian and international drafts), international grand master (1958), draft theorist. One of the largest shashists of the XX century.

Iser Iosifovich Kuperman (1922-2006) - Soviet and American shashist (Russian and international drafts), international grand master (1958), draft theorist. One of the largest shashists of the XX century.

Signed by the author. Iser Iosifovich Kuperman (April 21, 1922, Khabno ― March 6, 2006, Boston) ― Soviet and American draughts player (Russian and international draughts), international grandmaster (1958), draughts theorist. One of the largest draughts players of the XX century. Multiple USSR champion in Russian and international draughts, European champion in international draughts, seven-time world champion in international draughts. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1960); deprived of the title in 1978 during emigration to Israel. In 1940 he received the title of Master of Sports. He made his debut at the USSR championships in Russian draughts in 1945 and immediately won a landslide victory, and in subsequent years defended his title several times. After the introduction of competitions in international, stocklet draughts in the USSR, Kuperman undertook a thorough study of the literature devoted to them, and at the first USSR championship on the big board in 1954 he took first place. In 1958, having won the candidates tournament, Kuperman got the right to a match for the world championship with the reigning Canadian champion Marcel Deslauriers, and beat him, winning four victories with two defeats and 14 draws, thus becoming the first Soviet world champion in this discipline. By the end of the year, Kuperman was already an international grandmaster. Cooperman became the world champion, winning matches in 1959, 1961, 1965 and 1967. Two more times the title was awarded to him without a game: in 1963 and 1974, the World Championship matches did not take place (later the International Draughts Federation declared Senegalese Baba Si the world champion for 1963, while Kuperman was not deprived of the title). In 1978, Kuperman emigrated to Israel, and then to the United States, where he successfully competed in tournaments until old age. He won the American Pool Checkers Association Championship seven times (1984-1990), thus becoming the most titled master of this game, and the US International Draughts Championship eight times.