I see there is a brazilian checkers variation that can be played but obviously it is just international draughts played on a 8x8 board. Is there a way to play american checkers/english draughts?

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Playstrategy.org

On lidraughts there hasn't been any Update for almost 3 years

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It’s a shame they don’t look at introducing English American draughts, can’t understand why not

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We need ENGLISH and POOL draughts available.
We need to humiliate Russian players who hope for 15 moves in "3 (flying) kings controlling long diagonal vs. 1 (flying) king", because under Pool rules they will have to win in 13 moves, and it demands higher accuracy.

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Since lidraughts is open source, shouldn't it be possible for anyone to program a new variant? I don't know how expensive it would be to pay someone to add a new variant, but I would be willing to contribute some if it were for adding a variant that interests me.

is playstrategy.org open source too? One could maybe to try to implement their checkers code?

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It's really unfortunate that playstrategy has more variants, but is less popular

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@HawaiiBlue yes PlayStrategy is open source :)
github.com/mind-sports-games/lila
github.com/Mind-Sports-Games/strategygames
playstrategy.org/source

What's the story here? Is there some drawback to playstrategy?

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PlayStrategy is the best site, but the only drawback is there aren't a lot of players...
But you can invite your friends to play PlayStrategy's tournaments, and the community will grow up!