Walter Montego: You should check out the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=3 board.

Fencer has been asking for a couple of questions about the rules of international checkers.... which most likely means he is working on programming it. (not a guarentee - but why else would he be asking about the rules)

My suggestion - list the top 2 or 3 checker variants that you think would attract the most players - and post detailed rules about each of them here. Hopefully if Fencer is still in a programming mood, he will take up adding a few more checker variants. (and as he is programming 1 checker variant - it is usually easier to program other checker variants)

coan.net: As for an easy variant to add, if Draughts ("International Checkers") is created, is Canadian checkers. It has the same rules as Draughts, except that's it's played on a 12x12 board (with 30 checkers).

Wikipedia has a handy table which lists the differences between the regional draughts/checkers variants, and has links to some "invented" variants.

coan.net: I posted how to play Jump Checkers right on this discussion board eleven posts back on December 8th, 2007
Checkers variants (8x8) (Walter Montego, 2007-12-09 01:42:49)
and some pointers on how to play right after that post. It's an obscure game that I'm sure would not make any lists as you suggest. It first needs to have a few people play it and see if they like it or not. I think just from that post one could program Jump Checkers for this site. IF Fencer has any questions about the play, I'll be happy to answer them.

Walter Montego: It's too long to read just after waking up. Could you post a short list of differences, compared to normal Checkers?

Fencer: Good morning! I just woke up myself. We do indeed live in different time zones.

I'll see what I can do, post it back here in a few days, and send you a copy too. It may not shrink in size much since so much of the game is completely different than regular Checkers. I can just list the differences and that should be a lot smaller, though that might not tell one how to play the game. I suppose it will make it easier for a regular Checker player to know what's coming and be ready by the second game.

Walter Montego: International checkers is the standard checkers game played in the Netherlands and Russia.