Ron King Retains Freestyle Checkers Title, from Alex Castaldo
Ron "Suki" King of Barbados retained his title as World Champion in GAYP (Go-As-You-Please) checkers today. He defeated the challenger Lubabalo Kondlo of South Africa on the 24th and last game in the series, held in Medina, OH. All previous games had ended in draws. The referee was Alan Millhone. Our congratulations to the winner.
[In Go-As-You-Please Checkers, the players begin in the starting position shown, and can make any opening move. In Restricted Opening Checkers, the first three moves are drawn at random to generate the starting position, and the players continue from there].