I often find puzzles where a winning move isn't counted as correct because another move is even better. I get that the exercise is to find the best move, but at the same time it can be quite frustrati…

Yes @Finkeltje, the change was made before the weekend. Every three hour block now has one blitz tournament with increment and one without (except with overlapping daily/weekly/etc). Why not more t…

Has the distribution of tournaments with and without increment already been changed? I thought there were only 3+2 standard tournaments at 14:00 and 20:00 CET (besides those at times that most Europe…

We can always consider more tournaments with increment, moving closer towards a 50/50 division seems fair. A downside of longer timecontrols is that you need more players to have a fun tournament (nob…

@Frisian Fair point, this is the best I could do using the search tool. :) I do believe that most people prefer an increment though. Perhaps the fact that almost all real world draughts tournaments us…

Hmmm, while I agree with your point, your evidence is not really significant, statistically. I have noticed that some players play much much more than others, hence they have many more games in the da…

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 Intern…

Oi amigos @BumperBalloonCars e @Arkun. Após exaustiva análise no Scan3.0 e KingsRow, pode-se afirmar que realmente a partida está ganha para as pretas. Segue: [Event "Game 1, opening start …

Most important is the fact that if black does not make the combination, black will lose a piece with an evaluation of at least +1 obviously. So, also important in a game, sometimes you need to find th…

What's the main variant? Black wants to force white to give three pieces to capture the king, but it seems like white may only have to give two, leading to an equal 9x9: after the king shot, white can…