American checker player
American Checker Player is an 1875 New York checkers periodical edited by Thomas Phelan, Charles Kelly and James H. Phelan for players of the game. Its pages are diagrams of checkerboards with black and white pieces, labelled WHITE at the top and BLACK at the bottom, showing positions for problem solving. A designer could borrow the clean hatched-square board grid and the rows of round stacked pieces as a simple, graphic motif.
