@honeybee20253 52. .. 12-18 is very inferior move. Black has solid material advantage, and there is NO rational reason to go for king endgame! Please, keep in mind that if you have significant pos…

It is clear that the Queen has to leave the long diagonal. What I like: the intuitive 37-42 is only draw. The other 3 counter-intuitive moves on the short diagonal win, if Queen goes to 42 in the next…

Two variants: ATOMS — Captures are exploding all pieces near captured piece. You can capture only once a move. If capture makes the board absolutely empty, game ends in draw, but if game is rated,…

Dear draughts friends, The board of the WFD Foundation is sorry to inform you that in one of the last WFD tournaments, Lidraughts.org has found out a cheater. Everyone playing on Lidraughts.org sho…

Because the traditional Christmas tournaments cannot take place this year, there may be interest in a tournament from December 27 to 30 via lidraughts. The idea is to play a mini-match of four games a…

The WFD Foundation will be organising a series of online tournaments for the winter months of December 2021, January 2022 and February 2022. The tournaments will take place on Lidraughts.org. The firs…

@Tim Had you take part into puzzle solving tournaments? Although they are not very popular, they are run in some Central and Eastern European countries; players can earn titles in them, and there are …

@AnonymousnewAccount has been banned for thinking what I think.

@Fox_chess1 under standard rules, a game is won either by taking all pieces OR by disabling opponent to make a legal move (what chess players might call as "stalemate"). Example (10x10 board): White…

Arena has very stupid pairing system. I have seen this in all tournaments I played, but I will use this: https://lidraughts.org/tournament/HIQP4DeZ as example. 4 players waiting while 2 playing And…