lidraughts • Online Draughts

lidraughts.org

About this game

Play international draughts (on a 10X10 board), or draughts variants on an 8x8 board, online and offline, against other players and against the computer. Built for the love of draughts, this app is open source and free for all.

- Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence draughts
- Play in arena tournaments
- Play against the computer, both online and offline
- Find, follow, challenge players
- See your games stats
- Draughts variants, available online and offline: Frisian, Russian, Brazilian, Antidraughts, Breakthrough, Frysk!
- Practice with draughts puzzles for International, Frisian and Russian draughts
- Game analysis with local computer evaluation
- Board editor to setup positions
- Server computer analysis with move annotations and game summary
- Over The Board mode to play offline with a friend
- Standalone draughts clock with multiple time settings
- Available in 22 languages
- Designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode
- 100% free, without ads, and open source!

Just like https://lidraughts.org, this application is open source, and respects user freedom. It is entirely free and without ads, now and forever.

Source code of the mobile application: https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidrobile
Source code of the website and server: https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidraughts

The computer analysis is possible thanks to Fabien Letouzey's open source draughts engine Scan 3.1: https://github.com/rhalbersma/scan

Many words of thanks must be expressed to the lichess developers, whose open source work made all of this possible:
- Vincent Velociter (https://github.com/veloce), lead developer of the lichess app which was forked to create the lidraughts app
- Thibault Duplessis (https://github.com/ornicar), creator of lichess.org, without whom there would be no lidraughts.org in the first place
- All others who contributed over the years, too many to mention

Ratings and reviews

Please provide an option to change the maximum capture rule. This is because rules for draughts differ in different parts of the world. Secondly, the board type should be adjustable. With focus on the bottom left corner, one board type hosts a piece of marble like it is for this game whereas In other boards, the bottom left corner is left empty. It makes a lot of difference. Please respond to these changes to make the game more accommodating and inclusive

This is the professional's choice for online International draughts, by far the best app on play store. Analysis board, studies, puzzles, spectator mode, tournaments, 6 variants, and every tool you need to improve at draughts. The fact that it has only 50k downloads is obscene, considering those other money grabbing, ad-ridden, bug infested apps with cartoonish visuals have 10-100M+. Maybe y'all should add American checkers to get more people to download, expect for that Lidraughts is perfect.

Great app but pls can u make the maximum capture rule optional ( the any capture rule option) & have the option of rotating the board by 90 degrees this having the longest diagonal on d right instead of the left. This will change the international draughts version into the west African or Nigerian version of the game which is very very popular!!

What's new

- improved connection stability on some devices
- more text is translated, added new languages: Welsh, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian
- fixed engine not available for some games on analysis board
- fixed wrong board coordinates during puzzles
- all settings are now visible in tournament lobby