@PhilipAfanasyev As I said above, there is no historical evidence that it should be called Russian. No Russian hegemony!

Let me state that even Pool draughts on 10x10 board would be a great addition to Lidraughts. Despite that there is no "maximum capturing" in Pool draughts, Pool draughts on 10x10 board would be more …

A. Petrov (same one who is honoured in chess world by Petrov's defence, btw.) had published the first book on "Russian" draughts. However, he doesn't use ANY reference to RUSSIA or RUSSIANS. For him,…

@MyDogBeatMeInChess Centi-pawn in chess and centi-draughtsman draughts don't have same impact. Generally, if you lose one draughtsman, you can't expect more than a draw : practically, the chances are …

@BlitzWizard94 In my opinion, the first thing to know about draughts is the rules under whom you play in local community, because draughts is social game, and it is almost impossible to make progress …

@Rechefiltr_is_Fire Altaic draughts ("Altai shatra") has also a good potential for Atomic chess ideas: https://glukkazan.github.io/checkers/altai-shatra.htm

@Rechefiltr_is_Fire If you intend to keep close similarity to Atomic Chess, the capturing rule should be changed for Atomic draughts. Most of draughts variants use "jumping" style of capturing, howeve…

This variant is known to me. It is like Pool draughts, but on 10x10 board. Because majority capturing is not mandatory in this variant, many shot ideas can't be applied from International (here, in l…

@TryToBeatME Please, see https://lidraughts.org/study/lxrByPq6/riHFYE1S

Any tower draughts variant is hard for implementation because a player needs to know the structure of piece, and there is big difference if stacked piece contains two or three enemy draughtsmen! Semi…