@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 …

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

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…

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

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…

@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…

(1) Many players had expressed a desire with regards to availability of more variants, however, admins and devs are deaf to our petitions and requests. What's even worse, they refuse to announce what …

the worst part of it is that nobody can erase his ugly messages

There were some initiatives which were accepted by developers, however, as for adding new variants, their response was noncommittal.

Some years ago lidraughts devs claimed that it is hard to implement any new variants. However, I looked upon a code which enabled Russian and Brazilian variants, and I can assure that pure coding wor…