Dear draughts players, You will doubtless know that the next Frisian Draughts World Championships will be held this summer (16 to 24 August) in the town of Harns/Harlingen. 16 people will participa…

Italian draughts: (1) Board orientation: single corner (long diagonal) is at the right hand; (2) White starts a game; (3) Particularity of Italian rules: Italian king (dama) is not to be captured…

i was wondering about a solution and i'm not sure where to find the necessary resources to find out why haha https://lidraughts.org/training/frisian/49 after 2. 26-21, 17x48, why does 3. 28-23 n…

Have some of those players a lidraughts account? No. 1 gmi ALEXANDER GEORGIEV No. 2 gmi ROEL BOOMSTRA No. 3 gmi ALEXANDER SHVARTSMAN No. 4 gmi ALEXANDER BALIAKIN No. 5 gmi MARTIJN VAN IJZENDOORN…

@LuluDraughts Recomiendo algunos libros para jugadores principiantes e intermedios: (1) Damas Españolas: Reglas y estrategia. Tomo I : https://archive.org/details/112-book-002/112%20book001/ (2) Dam…

Berserk as means of gaining extra points deprives any game of true sportsmanship. As a tournament option, arena is good, however, I would like to apply some modest multiplier for winning streaks (1.1…

@kalnap (1) Oh yes i missed that thanks! But there aren't any .exe documents, only the code... Do you know how to convert them in executable document? (2) Thanks! i'll look into that :) (3) Oh yes…

@tititogepi (1) Kallisto4.rar contains some engines in the subdirectories: go to Engines -> src and extract rar files in separate folders. KestoG_1_4_Moscow is written in C++ SiDra_2 is written in …

- Middlegame Any middlegame is based on looking for favourable and advantageous exchanges, as well as for getting full control of central squares. With regards to this, the main problem of middlega…

2. Openings - All beginners should focus on fighting for the central squares c3, d4, c5, f4. If you have 3 of them under control, you clearly have an advantage! Therefore, there is a limited scope o…