lidraughts • Online Draughts 2.2.0

Built with a passion for draughts, this application is designed to offer a comprehensive and enjoyable experience. It boasts various features:

• Various game modes including bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence draughts
• Engage in arena tournaments
• Challenge computer opponents online and offline
• Discover, follow, and challenge other players
• Track your gaming statistics
• Offers multiple draughts variants such as Frisian, Russian, Brazilian, Antidraughts, Breakthrough, and Frysk
• Enhance your skills with draughts puzzles for International, Frisian, and Russian draughts
• Utilize game analysis tools with local computer evaluations
• Create custom board setups with the board editor feature
• Benefit from server computer analysis with move annotations and game summaries
• Enjoy the Over The Board mode for offline gameplay with a friend
• Includes a standalone draughts clock with flexible time settings
• Supports 20 languages for a wider user base
• Optimized for both phones and tablets with landscape mode support
• Completely free, ad-free, and open-source

This application is developed following the ethos of open source software and user freedom. It is free of charge and devoid of advertisements forever. For those interested, the mobile application's source code can be found at: https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidrobile. The source code of the website and server can be accessed at: https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidraughts.

The impressive computer analysis capabilities are made possible thanks to Fabien Letouzey's open-source draughts engine Scan 3.1 located at: https://github.com/rhalbersma/scan.

A special mention of appreciation goes to the developers at lichess for their monumental efforts that paved the way for this application:

• Vincent Velociter (https://github.com/veloce) for spearheading the development of the lichess app which served as the foundation for the lidraughts app.
• Thibault Duplessis (https://github.com/ornicar), the visionary behind lichess.org without whom lidraughts.org would not exist.
• The countless contributors over the years who have supported this initiative.