I don't know if I'd count as an experienced player, but judging from the monthly amount of players, we're growing: https://lidraughts.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz It used to be around 100-…

After 19-23 white can also capture two pieces using the piece on square 30. Unlike in Frysian, in regular draughts you're not forced to take with the king if a man and a king can capture the same numb…

Hi Fabien, kind of you to personnaly answer ! I used to follow your discussions about draughts computing in the World Draughts Forum ; I wish I had more skills on coding to understand you :) @RoebS…

Nice to see you posting here Fabien To add to @Faraday's question, when you run Scan in the browser on the lidraughts analysis boards, no tablebases are used (too large to download and run locally)…

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…

Yes. We are working on an opening book, opening tablebase. Hopefully we can use the existing 250.000 games of official tournament games and competitions, integrated with games played on the websit…

Conditional moves(on the analysis board, not premoves) used to work, but now whenever I try to confirm what I want to be a conditional move, it erases it and sends me out of the analysis board. Could …

Pfew, bughouse draughts, has anyone ever played that? Also crazyhouse draughts crossed my mind, hard to judge if those would be good games though. You could use the same rules that Crazyhouse/Bugho…

@RoepStoep Your most important reason is, I think, not valid. Your main argument is about dexterity. Well, we are talking about the game of draughts, right. Draughts has not been invented as a dext…