Hello everybody,

I don't know wether this is posted already, but perhaps it would be interesting for some people to start on this site this game, but of course the international standard way, with a board of 100 fields, and the international rules. I was thinking about this because in the club where I was for longtime a member,there was a member: Oscar Verpoest, who was sometime ago worldchampion of playing draughts by correspondance, and so I liked also to play draughts this period!

What do you think about this ?

Friendly greetings,

Herman

That would take a lot of time and programming, and the Chess.com team is very busy trying to smooth out the site as it is.  I have a feeling this is going to remain solely a chess site.  It would be fun, though!  

Surely there must already be checkers (draughts) sites out there? I know there are backgammon sites out there.

Checkers and draughts is not the same thing

Sothilde wrote: Checkers and draughts is not the same thing

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I think in some UK countries they play checkers (same rules and board/pieces) as in the US but call it draughts. Perhaps draughts is completely different in other countries?

Draughts is played on a 10X10 board and you are allowed to capture backwards, checkers is on a 8x8 board and you aren't allowed to capture backwards (if I recall correctly). Checkers is looked at as the inferior game by people who are very good at draughts. I know a few very good draughts players (one was world champion of the below 18 players), and they all agree checkers is way too easy and you can too easily predict almost the whole course of the game after a few moves.

English draughts is the same game as American checkers, I just looked it up. I understand that in other countries draughts is played on a 10x10 board and rules are different. I believe in Russia for example.

Hmm, I don't really know about the differences per country, but yes in Russia as well as in The Netherlands

I believe that the 10x10 version is the international standard, though few people play it here in the states(or in England, apparently).  I've never played it, though it sounds like loads of fun!

Just stick with chess !!