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[Feature Suggestion] Bughouse draughts

I've played this tower draughts game a lot when I was young (on 10x10 board and those rules). Towers of 9 pieces were not an exception. In this last video (on the 8x8 board) I can't see how tall the towers are, while it is very important to know how many pieces are trapped underneath the opponant's piece (to play them free). Have you seen solutions for that?

(1) On 8x8 board a good solution is implemented in Checkersland application where Russian tower draughts and laska are included among other variants.
(2) Of course, tower draughts could be played better in some enhanced 3d graphics mode, but it is possible to apply some simplification, too. For example, a number of checkers ("men") and kings could be indicated on the frontal part (thus, a view of tower can be limited to 4 elements) , but any tower can be viewed fully when it is clicked.

Diagonal draughts on 10x10 board with International or Frisian capturing rules can be implemented easily.
The difference consists only in initial position and crowning squares.

For diagonal International draughts I suggest initial position:
[FEN "W:W15,20,24,25,29,30,33,34,35,38,39,40,42,43,44,45,47,48,49,50:B1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,16,17,18,21,22,26,27,31,36"] .
Each side has only 4 crowning squares:
· white on 1, 2, 6, 16;
· black on 35, 45, 49, 50.
If white gets checkers on squares 4 and 5 (or, likewise, black gets checkers on squares 46 and 47), crowning does not take place. Instead, these checkers become almost imprisoned on these squares: they are allowed to perform capturing move.

Because of orthogonal and diagonal capturing, the initial position for diagonal Frisian draughts should be:

[FEN "W:W16,21,26,27,31,32,36,37,38,41,42,43,46,47,48,49:B2,3,4,5,8,9,10,13,14,15,19,20,24,25,30,35"] .

White's crowning squares: 4, 5, 15; imprisonment squares: 1, 2, 3.
Black's crowning squares: 36, 46, 47; imprisonment squares: 48, 49, 50.

Of course, giveaway diagonal draughts (or diagonal anti-draughts) can be included, too.

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