Puzzle 1204: a lot of winning moves are missing from the endgame, such as 8. 2-16 and 8. 2-35 6-11 9. 35-44 11-16 10. 44-39.

I was testing Scan's endgame technique in International draughts by comparing human approach and AI approach. There is a nice puzzle by Noome and Hortsman (I quote their names by cyrillic retransla…

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…

12 - 8 should also win since the king on 1 can then force the black king to 11.

Oh, 24-30 on move 3. 1..23-29, 13-19, 21-27 and 11-17 is also winning.

Author here. @Jeffrey Congratulations on the draw! Scan probably made mistakes when answering you, however. The version I'm using is slightly different, and plays those moves (even with only…

For some unknown reason Scan doesn't play the right moves. After 7. ... 27-31 ? the position is lost for Black (Dragon Draughts database). Maybe Scan doesn't use endgame database in lidraughts ? Anyw…

after 39-24, 18-12, 25-30 and 7-11 lead to a winning position. after 25-30 my analysis program says that after 29-23 white is better

I have understood this: memorizing the first 10 positions (the squares from 1 to 10) it is easy to improve by counting, for example, from the square number 1, +10 to obtain the square number 11; + 20 …