Puzzle 1811: It may not be a clear mistake, but this puzzle is awful. Black’s king is attacking, and the only thing you have to do is to make a draw. On a very boring way.

A very good explanation by Tim! I'm both a chess player and draughts player. All my chess friends and me are very enthusiastic about lichess, for many years. I would like lidraughts to become as…

I've had a lot of doubt about this one, because the two kings seem so much better, but maybe it's an illusion. It's hard to grasp, for example, why the evaluation of Scan remains at -3.9 even at depth…

It seems that all correct moveorders are correct. It's a nice puzzle because of the cute sacrifice 14-20, to not end up in a trap for the king.

About 1059: yes, lots of moves and final squares for the King are correct. 42-37 and 47-41 are considered correct in the puzzle (as well as the different squares to end with the King). Unfotunately 38…

Puzzle 1059: on the sixth move (with opposite kings) multiple wins are possible apart from the expected 38-32. My 38-33 (29x38 43x32 etc. try) was deemed wrong. I didn't check 42-37 and 47-41, but tho…

(1) On 8x8 board a good solution is implemented in Checkersland application where Russian tower draughts and laska are included among other variants. (2) Of course, tower draughts could be played bet…

There is a good crossover between draughts and chess called "Altai shatra" where dropping pieces from specific board zone (i. e., fortress) is possible. The board and rules may appear complicated at …

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…

On 1627 the idea was that moving to king simply loses the king immediately, and the winning line is a much clearer win, objectively clearly better continuation. But looking at it more closely now, 8-2…