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…

The most prominent part of this subject here is: Having more time to think in games in tournaments. We constantly look into that. What is and what isn't correct, in this moment of time, is based…

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

Thnx, I understand. The extra game is interesting. I suppose the 'Meike move' is 27-22 on move 6? And on 7-12 or 8-12 white will play 39-33, taking back with 34. Or is the Meike move 27-22 on move …

Very nice! Thank you! Is 7. 33-38 a good move objectively? It feels counterintuïtive.

The half-move counter that I added to the FEN is used in frisian games to count the distance to 7 moves draw, so there should be a complete gamestate representation for both variants. I might contact …

I see. It seems that you are already a few steps ahead indeed. However, if you want to be completely correct, there is one additional rule that can make a FEN require additional information for …

Only 7-12 is accepted as the first move, but 27-32 (and then 7-12) wins in the same way.

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 …