Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, is a form of the strategy board game checkers...
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Turkish draughts (Turkish: Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի, տամա)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: Dame) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt...
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The World Checkers/Draughts Championship is the tournament of English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers") which determines...
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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...
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2024 in mind sports (section English draughts)
Asian Championship in Tashkent Classic Draughts-64 - Open Winner: Laziz Muraliyev May 1–9: 2024 World Team Draughts Championships in Albufeira June 2–10:...
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Checkerboard (category Draughts)
(American English) or chequerboard (British English) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played...
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Italian draughts (Italian: Dama italiana) is a variant of the draughts family played mainly in Italy and Northern Africa. It is a two-handed game played...
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Lasca (category Draughts variants)
is a draughts (or checkers) variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941). Lasca is derived from English draughts (American...
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1873; died in Scotland on 11 August 1941) was a British champion of English draughts from Scotland. He reportedly lost only two out of 8,000 games. He actually...
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Brazilian draughts (or Brazilian Checkers) is a variant of the strategy board game draughts. Brazilian draughts follows the same rules and conventions...
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(born November 6, 1870, London, England; died May 8, 1926) was an English draughts or checkers player originally from England who was WCDF champion from...
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The hopped-over pieces are captured (retired from the game, as in English draughts) and collected in the capturing player's bin. Only jumping moves are...
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pieces are typically a dark color but not necessarily black (e.g. in English draughts official play they are red). Cf. White. See also White and Black in...
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The World Draughts Federation (Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames) FMJD, is the international body uniting national draughts federations. It was founded...
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Ron King (category Players of English draughts)
Ron "Suki" King (born 1956) is a Barbadian English checkers player from Saint George, Barbados. He has won twelve world championship titles at the game...
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Bashni (category Draughts variants)
but according to the basic rules of English draughts, world chess champion Emanuel Lasker developed the draughts game "Laska" and, in 1911, published...
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Amangul Berdieva (category Players of English draughts)
1987) is an English draughts and international draughts player from Turkmenistan. She is twice women's world champion of English draughts (also known...
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strategy games are listed below: Angels and Devils Arimaa Checkers (English draughts) Checkers variants Chess Chess variants Chomp Domineering Dots and...
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Vitalia Doumesh (category Soviet draughts players)
1965, Latvian SSR, USSR) is a Dutch draughts player (International draughts, English draughts and Turkish draughts). She won championships in the USSR...
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American Pool Checkers (category Draughts variants)
variant of draughts, mainly played in the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States and in Puerto Rico. As in the related game English draughts (also known...
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(1856–1913), South African batsman Robert Stewart (draughts player) (1873–1941), British champion of English draughts from Scotland Robert Stewart (footballer,...
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Chinook (computer program) (redirect from Draughts computer)
Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta...
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Michele Borghetti (category Players of English draughts)
international draughts, Italian draughts and English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers"). In English draughts he was world...
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International draughts English draughts Pool checkers Russian checkers Italian draughts Turkish draughts Draughts Tanzanian draughts Official website...
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game Strongly solved by W. A. Wythoff in 1907. English draughts (checkers) This 8×8 variant of draughts was weakly solved on April 29, 2007, by the team...
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Lubabalo Kondlo (category Players of English draughts)
Lubabalo Nicholas Kondlo (born December 21, 1971) is a player of English draughts (also known as American checkers) from South Africa. He holds the title...
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Asa Long (category Players of English draughts)
Asa Long (1904 – 1999) was an American checkers player, winner of multiple US Championships, spanning more than sixty years, and a one-time World Champion...
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Philosophy shogi checkers (哲学飛将碁) is a board game similar to English draughts, invented by Inoue Enryō, Japanese philosopher, and described by his student...
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Marion Tinsley (category Players of English draughts)
World Championships. However, the American Checkers Federation and the English Draughts Association refused to allow a computer to play for the title. Unable...
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