Though the proposed solution (1.27-21 2.28-23) is optimal, the suboptimal solution 1.28-23 is also clearly winning. Hence, I do not think this is a great puzzle.

Hopefully more people will find their way to lidraughts over time, we still need to hit that "critical mass". The online presence of draughts is a lot smaller than chess, but should be big enough to h…

@marahonov_dima and others Do you mean you would like to see more tourneys with increment (especially the 5+x tourneys)? Or specifically daily, weekly, monthly or yearly tourneys? We added some i…

Hehe, great you pointed this out @bonzai. I do this on purpose sometimes, to alternate a bit in the puzzles. It is also about the full-board awareness (a lot of beginners don't see quickly that they h…

@Pontel What do you mean exactly? Do you mean that the Engine evaluates the position as equal? In the position, black has a serious problem without the combination. After the combination, black …

I would also as well, Russian and Brazilian, English, and lasca are all crazy fun and if they are added we could easily take over play ok with number of site users. I do coding here and there in my fr…

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…

"That argument only applies to bullet and faster, which is for a large(r) part a dexterity game. With longer timecontrols there is no need for dexterity, and things are more or less the same either wa…

It seems everybody is in agreement on autocaptures being a bad idea, at least that's something :) It is a design choice to add one-click captures or not, this is by no means a necessity. We have ma…

For now, I still agree with my earlier statement about the one-click captures. About the numbers: Some people are for and against the idea of one-click captures. It would be very interesting when…