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…

Frisian puzzle 65 has another way of winning: 2...26-31 3.41x21 16x7 4.12x1 33-39 5.40x38 3-8

(1) On 8x8 board a good solution is implemented in Checkersland application where Russian tower draughts and laska are included among other variants. (2) Of course, tower draughts could be played bet…

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…

On 1627 the idea was that moving to king simply loses the king immediately, and the winning line is a much clearer win, objectively clearly better continuation. But looking at it more closely now, 8-2…

Good question @Bobkingmen3 This is because of the rules of the game (for completeness): https://lidraughts.org/variant/standard Two rules to point out: 1. You can't capture a piece twice. So, i…

1.25-20 2. 33-29 is also good

I suggest 5+2 time control for tournaments.

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 …