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In 1990 Chinook won the right to play in the human World Championship by being second to Marion Tinsley in the US Nationals. At first, the American Checkers Federation and English Draughts Association were against the participation of a computer in a human championship. When Tinsley resigned his title in protest, the ACF and EDA created the new ...
The general rule is that all moves and captures are made diagonally. All references to squares refer to the dark squares only. The main differences from English draughts are: the size of the board (10×10), pieces can also capture backward (not only forward), the long-range moving and capturing capability of kings known as flying, and the requirement that the maximum number of men be captured ...
A free program that allows you to play more than 20 kinds of draughts; A free Application that allows you to play 15 popular checkers variants with a human or a computer; Draughts.org Play online draughts plus information on strategies and history. Lidraughts.org Internet draughts server, similar to the popular chess server lichess.org
KingsRow is a strong checkers and draughts engine. It was released by Ed Gilbert in 2000. The checkers engine can be used with the CheckerBoard GUI. It is only available as a DLL on Windows since CheckerBoard is a windows-only program. [1] The engine is available as freeware. The engine uses neural networks, opening books, and endgame databases ...
This section is for computer programs who are noted in the history of the game. Chinook (draughts player), a program developed at the University of Alberta (noteworthy match against Marion Tinsley) KingsRow, a strong program by Ed Gilbert; Nemesis (draughts player), world computer champion in 2002
Viktoriya Motrichko started playing draughts at the age of 10 and currently specializes in draughts-64 (Russian and Brazilian versions).In these two variants she won numerous World and European junior championships starting 2002 when she became World and European champion among mini-cadets.
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His program, Colossus Draughts, won the West of England championship in June 1990, thus becoming the first draughts program to win a human tournament. [6] In August of the same year it won the gold medal at the 2nd Computer Olympiad , beating Chinook , a strong Canadian program, into second place.