We will be adding bot accounts eventually, but the priority for now is first to add a computer opponent and computer analysis. Note that draughts bot accounts aren't as straightforward as with ches…

I found an opening theory book online for the Frisian game. I think this is quite a comprehensive collection of openings with analysis. I have also used it myself for studying opening theory. …

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 also came across this, which is another way of solving it. https://pdn.fmjd.org/pdnnext.html#alternative-move-disambiguation For the UI problem, you can also make use of this. You just show t…

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 …

I mean that to analyse a variant position from the editor now, you'd have to open the analysis board, change the variant, and then paste the FEN string from the editor. Adding a variant dropdown to th…

https://lidraughts.org/study/9QdNPXra Here I show a trick from some opening. The take-home message should be that you have to be cautious when you put a man "under" another man because you crea…

I think the answer is yes. Also most code can probably just be transported from the lichess implementation. So far I can see the UCI protocol is not so chess specific, only the "mate" feature can be d…

I want to train variants using puzzle training.

Hi Finlip, It used to be 2h for 50 moves and after that 1h for 25 moves etc. The time control of the top draughts matches are nowadays 1h21min and 1min increment per move. One reasen why th…