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The room was also littered with tall championship trophies, and a bespoke checkerboard sat at the ready on a cluttered table. Tinsley never married and had no children. "It is a very rare woman who can be married to a real student of checkers," he once said.

This chapter of Seven Games tries to establish what a serious game checkers can be. And sure, any deterministic game can be. Still, I could not help but laugh at that last line.