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The review period for Wieger Wesselink's draft proposal for the PDN 3.0 standard ended on February 1st. There were no official votes on this forum, but I think there has been a very constructive discussion about some of the subtleties. To the best of my knowledge, Wieger has adequately and construct...

Dear draughts and checkers programmers, A happy 2012 to all of you! This is a reminder that the review period for Wieger Wesselink's PDN 3.0 draft standard will end on January 31st , which is in 4 weeks from tomorrow. After the initial posting of the review request, there was a good number of questi...

PDN 3.0 Standard Review Request ---------------------------------------- This is a request to review Wieger Wesselink's PDN 3.0 draft standard. The goal of this review is to arrive at an official standard that is recognized by the World Draughts Federation (FMJD). The review period starts October 1s...

Part 2 of Tjalling Goedemoed's e-book "Course in draughts" has been published. All in English. Downloadable from:
http://www.luteyn.net/Masterclass/Cours ... aughts.zip
http://www.luteyn.net/Masterclass/Cours ... Course.zip

On the FMJD forum for 10x10 draughts a new freely downloadable e-book was anounced:
http://laatste.info/bb/viewtopic.php?t=283&start=325

Or go to http://www.luteyn.net/Masterclass/Cours ... aughts.zip to download the e-book directly.

Rein

Last Sunday, the speed draughts championships (10x10) for computers were held in the Netherlands. The 10x10 version of Ed Gilbert's Kingsrow made a spectacular debut by winning the tournament by 1 point after 9 games.

For the results see:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjetten/dameng.html#perform