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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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General Draughts Discussion - playstrategy.org has American Checkers/English draughts#14

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…


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General Draughts Discussion - Why there is not turkish draughts on site? Its more fun and understandable#3

Examples of 11 move shots https://youtu.be/DaGS0CDjZUk?si=2Yg-LQFSII7WzJIx


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General Draughts Discussion - playstrategy.org has American Checkers/English draughts#12

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…


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General Draughts Discussion - playstrategy.org has American Checkers/English draughts#10

@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…


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