The perfect game of draughts ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists report. Researchers at the University of Alberta say they have 'solved' draughts, the 5000-year-old board game. Their computer ...

Played on a standard chessboard of 64 chequered squares, draughts is growing from a domestic to a national competitive game. Although a long-standing past time for many, the game of 'dame', as it is ...

The ancient game of checkers (or draughts) has been pronounced dead. The game was killed by the publication of a mathematical proof showing that draughts always results in a draw when neither player ...

The Jamaica Draughts Association (JDA) continues to advance its mission of promoting strategic and critical thinking among ...

In a tale reminiscent of “WarGames“, a computer has finally played out the 500 billion possible positions in the game of draughts (checkers). It only took Chinook 18 years to do so. Now, computer ...