Diagonal draughts on 10x10 board with International or Frisian capturing rules can be implemented easily. The difference consists only in initial position and crowning squares. For diagonal Intern…

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…

In puzzle of the day 22/6/2019 both 33x2 and 33x4 are winning.

In this game on move 49 there is a forced win in 4 moves. However the white king only jumps 4 of the 5 possible pieces it could jump. I am confused why wouldn't that last piece be jumped. (Are these t…

after 4-10 15x2 the move 13-18 is also winning

Oi amigos @BumperBalloonCars e @Arkun. Após exaustiva análise no Scan3.0 e KingsRow, pode-se afirmar que realmente a partida está ganha para as pretas. Segue: [Event "Game 1, opening start …

Yes, 3. ... 24-30 4. 34x25 15-20 and so on Thnx

And BTW: The match for the World title between the World Champion Alexander Shvartsman (Russia) and the Challenger (previous World Champion) Roel Boomstra (Netherlands) will be played in 3 cities o…

Hi all, On the 17th of december, the European championship started in Moscow. At the moment of writing, the first 4 games have been played. The Russian player IM Nicolay Germogenov (http://www.fmjd…