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[Feature Request] Atomic Draughts

Could we have atomic draughts as a new variant?

Who knows, we can consider atomic draughts, crazyhouse draughts, anti frisian...

Hard to say which one of those will be interesting games!

Another interesting variant that comes from the Frisian draughts community is called "FRYSK". You just play with the Frisian rules but start with 5 vs 5. So you just skip the opening theory and dive straight into the rather technical end game. With the Frisian rules an end game is never truly decided to be a draw are a win until the very end. Analysis of the end game with a king versus a king with one piece has also shown that even with perfect play from both sides there are both positions that end as a draw and those that end with a win.

I think it is a good variant to learn the Frisian game better (as it as also done in the past, and also skips the opening theory), can result in interesting games (there have successfully been international tournaments), you play the end game that is often skipped with too little time on the clock (here but also when people have 2 hours on the clock, the end game is played in the very last minutes.), and on top of that it would not have been too hard to implement (just a different starting position.)

Here you can see how such a game can go:

http://frysk.info/games.html

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