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 ...

ST JAMES, Jamaica — The Jamaica Draughts Association, in collaboration with the Montego Bay Warriors Draughts Club, recently hosted a draughts and pool checkers open tournament at Jarrett Park in ...

Dundalk man Con McCarrick, who passed away on Friday, May 22, once held the Guinness World Record for the most draughts games played and won against opponents in one session. His achievement came ...

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 bar-meets-gaming den Draughts has been taking the bored out of board games since it opened in Hackney in 2014 – and now it’s relocating to an even bigger and better venue. Draughts Haggerston will ...

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 ...

After 18 years of practice, computers have finally conquered the game of draughts. The result, described as a "truly significant advance in artificial intelligence", is a draughts programme which ...

A new draughts championship event is being created in celebration of a late world champion from a former mining village. Robert Stewart, a miner from Kelty in Fife, reportedly lost only two out of ...