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 …

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…

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…

Quite - thanks for your investments in all of this Roepstop!