BrainKing - Diskusní kluby (Checkers)

Subjekt: Re: The 3 move draw rule

EdTrice:
The English (EDA) introduced a 4 fold repetition rule in the early 1990's along with clarification of "making progress". But even 3 fold repetition is OK - with perfect play you NEVER need repeat a position - so you have a couple of chances to get it right - or do you want forever :)

16. ledna 2005, 21:50:51

Subjekt: Re: The 3 move draw rule

EdTrice: It's an IYT rule. No checker fedration ever signed off on it.

16. ledna 2005, 16:16:17

Subjekt: Re: The 3 move draw rule

Jumper2: The site owner Pat told me once he knows nothing about checkers. The original purpose of the rule was to prevent a player who was in a 1-1 mathmatical draw from refusing the draw offers and carrying the game on forever. You are right in that it is a bad rule when applied in other cases. If someone stubbornly refuses a cerain draw here Fencer will step in when notified and declare the game a draw.

16. ledna 2005, 16:05:08

Jumper

Subjekt: The 3 move draw rule

This rule is totally wrong in checkers. You have to repeat a move everyonce in awhile to run the opponent out of moves. We should get up a petition of 2000 plus players signing it so management knows their is a problem. or flood the mail with individual protests. Jim Loy should be a big help with this problem.

16. ledna 2005, 15:13:47

Subjekt: A Tough One

There is a pretty simple formula for 3 Kings to defeat 2 Kings in opposite double corners but it takes a bit of shuffling back and forth to line the 3 up properly. On IYT my opponent knew how to do it (I had the 2 Kings) but in the process of aligning he duplicated the same position 3 times and the site declared the game a draw. Unless someone knows a super fast way to do this I think it tilts the game unfairly.

15. ledna 2005, 20:15:13

Subjekt: Re: Longest 10-piece win with 5 kings each

EdTrice: thanks! thats was taught me a lot .. now to use it in my own game ;)

15. ledna 2005, 06:31:22

ustica tnp

Subjekt: Re: Longest 10-piece win with 5 kings each

EdTrice:your start the red position with 60% winning! and the white is got 3 checkers block! if white move#6 3-7 and still can Draw.

15. ledna 2005, 00:09:56

Subjekt: Re: Longest 10-piece win with 5 kings each

EdTrice: Very interesting.

10. ledna 2005, 10:36:52

ok ... will need some time to decrypt that message :)

thanks

10. ledna 2005, 09:18:39

when can a game of checkers be considered a draw ?

when both players have 3 kings left and no pawns .. is it a draw then ?

1. prosince 2004, 00:32:55

CW57

Subjekt: Sign up

22. listopadu 2004, 16:22:39

BuilderQ

Subjekt: JamesHird

On the Setting/Checkers page you can click "Switch piece colours" to make black start in checkers.

21. listopadu 2004, 23:29:04

Subjekt: Re: 1

yres?.......who?.........do i look like a OWL.................LOL

21. listopadu 2004, 23:20:44

Stevie

Subjekt: Re: 1

hit man ...who?

Jameshird yres but on bk white does

21. listopadu 2004, 18:37:59

DragonPope

Subjekt: first move

Isn't Black/Red suppose to move first in checkers?

21. listopadu 2004, 18:07:58

Subjekt: 1

Beware new programed player

18. listopadu 2004, 15:39:28

Subjekt: 1

Thanks guys

18. listopadu 2004, 11:11:47

*nod* i have it quite often with froglet .. its tough chosing when you only see the red ones clearly and the other 3 colors are replaced by red crosses :)

the problem is gone as soon as i clean my temporary internet files etc. :)

18. listopadu 2004, 08:58:17

Crook

Yep, it helps sometime. I have this problem quite often (MSIE), it's quite annoying. Once I made my move in chess and some figures appeared first after I clicked on "move". :-)

18. listopadu 2004, 08:42:49

when certain parts of the graphics arent loading then you have a problem with either your internet connection or your browser (probably the cache which is filled up) .. you can try to refresh the page of the game and see if it loads better .. with internet explorer you can press F5 and also Ctrl-F5

17. listopadu 2004, 20:50:10

scooby

Pardon?
I was also sure further down that you said ..slow at first than look out.. now you are saying that you slowed down

17. listopadu 2004, 20:46:59