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General Draughts Discussion - Chess or Draughts#2

"Better" may include a lot of presumptions. Try to reformulate your question. Moreover, what do you intend to gain by posing a question which requires to compare different game which have different …


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General Draughts Discussion - How to learn draughts#3

It is also available in studies: https://lidraughts.org/study/1ZbSVeHO


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General Draughts Discussion - How to learn draughts#2

There is an introductory course available at https://www.fmjd.org/downloads/Course/en/ . In your case, it would be beneficial to start with the pre-course https://www.fmjd.org/downloads/Course/en/Pre…


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General Draughts Discussion - Is this a mistake in the problem?#4

In this case, it is allowed: your draughtsman must execute full capturing sequence. Under International rules, your draughtsman can and must take backwards! I believe you were confused by Turkish str…


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General Draughts Discussion - Yet another question about Russian checkers missing engine (combined edition)#2

@let_me_di3 (1) At your current rating, you can benefit from limited edition of Aurora Borealis: pick version 3.6. lite at http://aurora.draughtsworld.com/download.html . Download pdn of any your ga…


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General Draughts Discussion - How to improve Lidraughts ? Just read my offer, you will be interested :)#8

@Maserati The engine analysis is enabled for 10x10 board only because apart from Fabien Letouzey, the developper of Scan, no one programmer was willing to contribute or to adapt his engine to lidraugh…


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General Draughts Discussion - How to improve Lidraughts ? Just read my offer, you will be interested :)#4

Theoretically, it is possible, but practically nobody will dedicated 6 hours for a single game. Just for comparison purposes, in Canadian draughts (12x12 board) you reach the later stage of middlegam…


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General Draughts Discussion - How to improve Lidraughts ? Just read my offer, you will be interested :)#2

Let me state again: we don't need any engine analysis for any variant on 8x8 board. Why? You need to respect the efforts of MASTERS who had already provided major lines in ANY opening. The engine …


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General Draughts Discussion - playstrategy.org has American Checkers/English draughts#19

@ErzyaKS Because of uncertainty and unpredictability in the endgame, this variant should be classified as competitive. However, I dislike that optional capturing is unconditional, because it can lead …


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General Draughts Discussion - playstrategy.org has American Checkers/English draughts#16

Yes, indeed. Apart from slaves of engines, whoever needs practically solved variants?


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