@barkbagarn As I stated above in post #2, Westerveld's books are publicly availably at archive.org : they are very good and they represent opinion of professional historian.

There is a book on the topic: The History of Checkers (Draughts), 2009, by Govert Westerveld. https://www.amazon.com/History-Checkers-Draughts-Govert-Westerveld/dp/1291667326/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&k…

#2 but in Chess, I had improved. I was 1300 in Lichess ratings. But when fhe account got accidentally closed, I opened another and found myslef to be near the minimum rating of 1800. I hope you unders…

Standings 1.Netherlands 1x🥇2x🥈 2.Poland 1x🥇1x🥈1x🥉 3.Ukraine 1x🥇1x🥉 4.USA 1x🥉 The table is based on the results of 3 tournament out of 22 (2 tournaments in each draughts variant)

@Diwaditya I guess you missed a particularity of Frisian rule: if a player has equal capturing options with both simple draughtsman or a king, a player is obliged to make capturing move with a king…

@Diwaditya Brazilian and Russian draughts are like sisters: historically, both of them evolved from Pool draughts (in English speaking world, more commonly referred to American Pool checkers) in ord…

@JWchess22 is banned for having 2 2s in his nickname.

General Draughts Team brings the 1st Blitz Titled Arena on Saturday 29th of May 19:00 UTC. The event is only open to titled players so they will have to join the following team: https://lidraughts.org…

Standings 1.Netherlands 1x🥇1x🥈 2.Ukraine 1x🥇1x🥉 3.Poland 1x🥈1x🥉 The table is based on the results of 2 tournament out of 22 (2 tournaments in each draughts variant)

Standings 1.Netherlands 1x🥇 2.Poland 1x🥈 3.Ukraine 1x🥉 The table is based on the results of 1 tournament out of 22 (2 tournaments in each draughts variant)