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Puzzle 3278. After making a king black has the opportunity to play 30-34. Then the only (and a very nice!) win is to put your king on square 30. 31-36 is a very boring variation ;-)

for https://lidraughts.org/training/2003, the combination 33-29 and 31-36 also eventually reaches an evaluation +2.5

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For puzzle 2491, 26-21 instead of 36-31 is also winning.

I often find puzzles where a winning move isn't counted as correct because another move is even better. I get that the exercise is to find the best move, but at the same time it can be quite frustrati…

There is an alternative solution, although it is a bit longer, but the tactical motif can be spotted easier: 1.48-42 37x48 2.17-12 7x18 3.15-10 5x14 4.44-39 48x34 5.35x4 18-22 6.4x27 36-41 7.27-31 …

33-29 and 31-36 are also winning, though the main line is better

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…

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…