Ostyak Checkers https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3441960/ostyak-checkers-tepek-modern-rules What's your thought, @kalnap?

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

Yes, the whole world will play their local versions of checkers on Playstrategy and applaud the developers of that site. However, the reality is completely different. Filling the site with solved ga…

Laotian draughts ( 10x10 board, Pool rules; see http://mlwi.magix.net/bg/checkersvariants.htm ) can be implemented easily. Indonesian draughts ( 10x10 board, draughtsmen can't jump backwards, long ra…

@statmatt to the wonderful suggestion of @kalnap I would also add Malaysian/Singaporean checkers (12x12), Checkers without mandatory capture and of course Werewolf Checkers and Russian Besiege Check…

Coding doesn't take a lot of work and effort: it is measurable by number of lines (generally, around 100 lines as I explained above) and hours of testing, except if the implementation requires huge nu…

Lidraughts DEVs are inactive ... Or are they? They might be busy behind the scenes trying to implement to features and variants Please GIVE THEM plenty of time Coding takes a LOT of work and effort.

@statmatt (1) A separate analysis board with an export in pdn (portable draughts notation format; see https://pdn.fmjd.org/introduction.html ) should be sufficient. While it is easy to convert pgn to…

I am one of the developers on PlayStrategy. We know we have more variants than lidraughts and offer Swiss tournaments which is missing here. However we also know we are lacking all of the analysis too…

Unfortunately correspondence games are not rated on play strategy