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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 ...
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 ...
International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts.The gameboard comprises 10×10 squares in alternating dark and light colours, of which only the 50 dark squares are used.
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
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Malaysian/Singaporean checkers follows the same rules as international draughts, with exceptions being pieces not able to move backwards (towards the player), the requirement to forfeit a capturing piece if the player fails to or wishes not to capture any enemy piece(s) with it, and a larger gameboard (12×12 squares instead of 10×10), and more checkers per player (30 instead of 20).
Draughts: International draughts: Draughts World Championship: Individuals 1885 Yuri Anikeev: 2023 2024 One year English draughts: World Checkers Championship: Individuals 1840 Sergio Scarpetta (3-Move) Matteo Bernini (GAYP) 2024 2024 2026 2026 Two years Brazilian draughts and Russian draughts: World Draughts-64 Championship: Individuals 1985 ...