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| General Draughts Discussion - Beginner question - When to resign#7 Playing until you have no pieces left is something only beginners and children do. It is a waste of your and your opponent's time to continue playing a game which you will clearly lose. The difficulty… | MN Finkeltje |
| General Draughts Discussion - Longest Capture sequence.#2 To capture 5 checkers is nothing unusual. With a king you can capture more. One real example: https://lidraughts.org/study/wJ1BNcCn/suk78R0a#1 See line after 1. 21-16. | kalnap |
| General Draughts Discussion - Beginner question - When to resign#1 I'm a beginner draughts player and have an etiquette question. When playing a game, and when it is clear that you will lose as you only have a few men left against more of the opponent (and they have … | Cacique |
| Lidraughts Feedback - Other board sizes#2 Canadians play on 12x12 board under International rules, some South Africans play on 14x14 board under International rules, many East and North Europeans play even on 10x8 board under Russian rules.… | kalnap |
| General Draughts Discussion - Does the size of the board change the game in a substantial way?#2 I would say that there are three components that increase or decrease level of strategy in any draughts variant: a) capturing directions; b) board size; c) amount of king privileges. First of all… | kalnap |
| Frisian - Frisian Puzzle#202#2 Okay, I ran into another like #202. This one is the very nice #394, but flawed. The alternative key 1... 32-38 works also. If 2.48x17, there is 2... 16x9 3.10x19 9x40#. If instead 2.10x9, there is … | BigBadWolf |
| Lidraughts Feedback - Russian draughts#1 When piece captures through the last row it remains as a piece and does not become a king. It may flash for moment as a king. This bug ruins compositions, analysis and studies. For example this compos… | Pepe |
| Off-Topic - Playing checkers since 7 years old with completely different rules #11 To answer the question about the ancient game "Damone", I think it isn't played anymore. I read it was just a regional southern variant. I live in northern Italy and I have never played it. Some child… | alessettembre |
| Off-Topic - Playing checkers since 7 years old with completely different rules #8 @alessettembre Draughts is a community game, and nowadays draughts players respect unity, despite diversity of rules. It is hard to meet serious draughts player who had not played at least three varia… | kalnap |
| Off-Topic - Playing checkers since 7 years old with completely different rules #6 That's the main problem of the game of checkers, too many national variants which in fact limit the spread of the game. Chess is almost everywhere played with the same rules, and that's one of the rea… | alessettembre |