Let me state again: we don't need any engine analysis for any variant on 8x8 board. Why? You need to respect the efforts of MASTERS who had already provided major lines in ANY opening. The engine …

For me to improve here : 1) Would add English checkers (Checkers 64). 2) Would add Turkish checkers 3) Would add the artificial intelligence of the analysis of the games that is present in the 100…

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. There are so many variations of the rules! Dynamo was written in "pre internet" times, it was much harder to access this sort of information. As for fonts, I …

DOSBOX will work, and is the easy/safe way to run old DOS software, but remember it is slow emulation, around 100 times slower than running on the same machine with DOS! To get the best performanc…

Basically, it is easy to compile all non-orthogonal draughts variants according to rules. They can be divided into Frisian system rules and franco-italian systen rules; the difference is that Frisian…

In fact, chess pieces would be so fun... :) There are some chess & draughts crossovers where this idea is applied. Try Cheskers (English rules for draughts; more details at https://en.wikipedia.org/…

As well, I looked upon the code of https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidraughts/blob/master/modules/draughts/src/main/Board.scala and https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidraughts/blob/master/modules/draughts…

This variant could work better under rules where a simple draughtsman can't capture backwards (Spanish, Czech, Tanzanian, Thai, South-German etc.). It would give chances to apply some positional sacri…

@kalnap , Let's start with the fact that this is just the name of the rules "Russian checkers" We just call it checkers 64. If you are talking about Ukrainian and Kharkiv checkers, then this is the fi…

The basic idea of "Coup Turc" is that you can't CAPTURE same piece (be it a draughtsman or be it a king) TWICE. In real life games, when you perform capturing, you do jumps and only afterwards you re…