Tanu the checkers master

  Seated on a chair on the deck, Seth examined the checkerboard in disbelief. Tanu had just jumped two of his checkers, and now outnumbered Seth seven pieces to three. But that was not the cause of his amazement. Seth reexamined his potential move, put his hand on one of his two kings, and jumped six of Tanu's pieces, zigzagging around the board.

  He looked up at Tanu. The Samoan stared back with wide eyes. "You asked for it," Seth laughed, removing all but one of Tanu's red checkers. Tanu had already beaten him twice in a row, and things had been looking grim until the coolest move he had ever found opened up. "I used to think triple jumps were the ultimate. " "I've never seen so many jumps in one move," Tanu said, a smile creeping onto his face.

  "Wait a minute," Seth said. "You set me up! You did that on purpose!"

  "What?" Tanu asked with too much innocence.

  "You wanted to see if you could create the biggest jump in the history of checkers. You must have been maneuvering the whole time to set that up!"

  "You're the one who found the move," Tanu reminded him.

Chapter 10