Author: Nicolas GUIBERT
Date: 16:21:29 08/02/01
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>Because of so many different games in so many different countries, >nearly no one is a professional player in these games. Time controls >are much faster as in chess. A very popular level is 60 moves in 1 hour >and then either stop the game (nearly all games are over before move >60) or quickly finish it. Not true. 2hr/50 moves is the official time. Most of the serious games are played at this rate. Not much different in Chess ? >Draughts is one of the few games where the game gets played at high >level. I believe there are something between 5 and 30 professional players in our game. It all depends on the definition of the word professional. The FMJD (international federation) has 50 country members. So this variation of the game is spread all over the world. >Amazingly national league dutch players easily draw any draughtsprogram, >sometimes even win from it. Beating a national draughtsplayer is >way harder as beating a GM in chess is (with exceptions of GMs who >play certain styles or already have big computerexperience). Right. > >My explanation for that phenomena is basically 2 fold: > - chessprograms have been put more work in than in draughtsprograms > - the center is less important in draughts as it is in chess, > so in chess you simply throw all pieces to the center and that's it One friend of mine, who knows many many games, and plays very good Chess also told me once that the strategy is Chess was more obvious than in Draughts. Actually, in 10x10 draughts, the Strategy is quite subtle, maybe more difficult than in Chess (?) Also the game is quite volatile. You can build an advantage move after move, and suddenly lose it completely because of one inaccurate move. I was told that this is rarer in Chess.
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