New serialized stories are coming soon at the Checker Maven site. Follow Sal Westerman of the Beacon Cafe as he pursues a championship. Adventure along with Marvin J. Mavin as he has a series of strange dreams.

A new WordStar page is in the works. For now we offer a comprehensive WordStar file converter which converts WS 5 through 7 to a large variety of formats. (.doc and .docx are deliberately omitted due to our allergies; use .odt instead). Many if not most WordStar options are honored; this is as complete a conversion utility as we've ever seen and we've released it as public domain freeware. It runs in the Bash shell.

About Us

Based in Honolulu, Hawai`i, the BobNewell.Net website offers a variety of entertaining and educational material on a range of subjects, from checkers to Emacs to Talmud. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome; just contact the Webmaster.

Read The Checker Maven

Don't miss The Checker Maven, a weekly checker webzine now in its 22nd year, and which by any measure is the world's most widely read periodical checkers publication specializing in the version of the game as typically played in the UK and America. A major emphasis of The Checker Maven is on unique checker fiction, typically featuring two new stories every month and occasional multi-part serials. Other features include Checker School, Speed Problems, and much more.