World Draughts Forum

On http://10x10.org I have added an article about 119 practical classical 10x10 positions. With the normal rules only 6% of them end in a decision. With killer draughts this becomes 48%. For all positions I added the main variant for both normal and for killer draughts, so they can be compared. Per...

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Due to very law resulting in the World Cup in Ufa with the classical time control again raise the question of "Killer-draughts". In fact there are 3 variants. 1) Giving a draw with the advantage (3 to 1, and so on) more points. Like the system in Delft and "+/-". Someting as in other sports. It seem...

Look like it is time to recall Killer-draughts againe! In Ufa we have World cup now - http://toernooibase.kndb.nl/opvraag/standen.php?taal=&kl=29&Id=5833&jr=17&afko=29&r= Resulting games aim to zero! Despite the fact that in tournament are playing players from Asia, America and Africa, who are very ...

http://kharkivobserver.com/?p=4579 “The sports terrorism from the IDF Pro-Russian leadership contains all the signs of violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.” International Grandmaster Mr Yuriy Anikeev from Kharkiv, being a winner of the Draughts World Championship 2016, is disqualifi...

http://idf64.com/ http://idf64.com/1idf.jpg The man on left (Vladimir Langin) is calling himself as a international grandmaster and multiple World Champion. Also organization created by him confirmed it. As we can check (ex. FMJD-64 rating list from 2009) he has no title!!! His personal rating is 23...

In a private conversation representatives of the Board IDF mentioned this interview. By their opinion it detrimentals the image of IDF and the image of the Draughts-64 as a whole... V. Langin is a Board member of the Fund of development russian draughts. So the interview, which I gave to this Fund b...

And what is more! In the decision of the Board 15.10.2016 https://idf-a.akamaihd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IDF-Board-meeting-report-15-10-2016-rus.pdf they told: 4.2. Having considered the request of the National Federations decided don’t allow participation of Iurii Anikieiev (Ukraine) in the ...

Recently Lelio Marcos wrote in a newsletter: "Who play in Águas de Lindoia is banned from the IDF events". V. Langin So it seems that banning players is quite common in the IDF. 15.10.2016 on the official website of the International Draughts Federation - IDF (http://www.idf64.org) was reported tha...

Marcel Kosters (Netherlands): " If you wish, I can elaborate a bit. With International Federation, the article is referring to International Draughts Federation (IDF). Which is the Russian separatist organisation from the legitimate World Draughts Organisation FMJD, Federation Mondiale du Jeu de Dam...

The international Federation IDF has banned Ukrainian for political reasons. https://scontent-waw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p403x403/14993449_1088796811238519_7858463127578468478_n.jpg?oh=9e2ea8f6573bb45164a971ec30eeb4ac&oe=588C7DCF http://all.true-news.info/the-international-federation-has-banned-uk...

90% of participants of the Heerhugowaard masters dont want to play Killer! they even have written the letter to organisators about it... what they affraid? Some of them even don't know clearly rules of Killer-draughts, confuse it with Thai-draughts. some affraid unexpected non-draw results, so can n...

the Match in a game Go between the best human Lee Sedol and Google-programme AlphaGo provoke a very big interest in the World. Artificial intelligence is wiining 2-0 for the moment. In draughts such matches passed imperceptibly... Now it is clear: human can not beat computer, but able to draw. What ...

I played many World Title matches by Anglo-American Checkers and can confirm - any World Title Match takes out a lot of health and energy, nerves etc. So ... here my personal guess: I think Mr. Georgiyev and Mrs. Golubeva decided to step out, because in the near past time these matches and tourname...

in 2015 Georgiev did a lot of efforts to get the match with Ndjofang, including publishing latters. Despite the prize fund in his Match with Chizhov was too small, anyway he came and got the title. With losing the title World champions are losing the right to play next Match after 2017 year if they ...