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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 ...
A game is a draw if neither opponent has the possibility to win the game. The game is considered a draw when the same position repeats itself for the third time (not necessarily consecutive), with the same player having the move each time. A king-versus-king endgame is automatically declared a draw, as is any other position proven to be a draw.
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
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
English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, [note 1] is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side. The pieces move and capture diagonally forward, until they reach the opposite end of the board ...
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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.
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 ...