But appearances are deceptive. Checkers has simple rules, but the possibilities are, as in chess, huge. At every turn there are an average of nine possible moves, so the number of possibilities quickly adds up! At the board games forward calculation and assessment of future possibilities play a major role and one game can be more difficult than the others, but if someone says that chess is harder than checkers or vice versa, this is obviously a subjective judgment according to Prof.
According to Prof. Euwe from such an opinion on these board games, however, is of little relevance. The number of possibilities is in fact of an order of magnitude which makes it unlikely that we will have seen all possibilities on the board within the foreseeable, or at least the most reasonable future.
The number of options for chess is 10 to the power of , thus a 1 with zeros. Generally this number is just called to make it clear that not even a PC with its high computational speed can deplete chess by systematically examining all the possibilities. Max Euwe, For draughts on a square board the potential is 10 to the power of 60, for checkers 10 to the power of For the game "go" this seems to be unknown, but it is certainly greater than for any other games.
Incidentally, the computer could reach at best the beginning of a solution in checkers. At the sound of the word draughts people unfortunately still conjure up a household, garden, or kitchen game. However, the reality is different. It seems like a simple game, but the more one looks into it, the more one finds out that the game on the squares is very complex.
Wim Huisman — Piet Roozenburg, Albert Huisman, the son of the legendary blind draughts player Wim Huisman, and public servant who works in a university library, says that draughts is harder than chess: "If you get a wrong move in chess, you can easily restore it.
In checkers one cannot withdraw a forward-mounted piece. Vermin then says, precisely in order to prove that draughts is a more difficult game, that in the draughts game pieces are the same and therefore appear to have similar functions. That is not so. Depending on the position on the board each piece has a particular function or more functions which can be different in another position. This is unlike chess, where one knows in advance what the function of a particular piece is and what they are worth opposing.
One does not know this in draughts and that is what makes it so difficult. Anton Dusseldorf considers draughts harder and said in "You can force your opponent to make a specific move much more, because he is obliged to capture. Nothing is less true. The very simplicity of the game makes draughts so difficult. A chess player must calculate various possibilities at once before he moves. Draughts players are forced to think ahead.
We know from Ton Sijbrands that he thought forward 35 moves during a party. While his board was full of pieces, he came calculating to a position in which he had three stones and his opponent only two.
Because it would finish in a draw, he decided to make a different move. Is blind chess not more difficult than blind draughts? Players who have studied and played both games do not say no, because although the number of pieces in chess is higher, they have clear distinguishing marks which help memory, an element missing from draughts.
To the question whether draughts is harder than chess or bridge master Jack de Haas once extensively responded: "Checkers is at least as difficult as chess and the combinations in checkers, thanks to the compulsory capture and the capture of the majority of the pieces, are brighter and deeper than in chess. Matla's opinion of the difficulty factors in checkers and chess was as follows: "Checkers is to me harder than chess, because all the pieces play the same role and the same value, allowing more possible combinations.
The course of a game of chess is easier to remember, because the pieces do different work and are not equivalent. In addition, the number of squares on a chessboard is significantly lower. There are cases of good draughts players who made formidable achievements in the world of chess after a short time, including a former champion of the Netherlands who now plays on the second board for his chess club in competitive matches. Heusdens's view is very clear: "In fact, I do not know how to play draughts.
A tournament, in which he incidentally usually scores with bridge, Heusdens considers more as a game of skill than a mind game. Chess is a lot more difficult, nevertheless his extremely intuitive way of playing sometimes brings him good results.
However, according to his judgement draughts is too difficult for him. He enjoys drawing nice figures peeping into holes, nothing more than that, but if he is forced to calculate deeply and concretely, he prefers to back out. Palmans considers draughts harder than chess. A computer can beat the best chess player, but cannot handle the draughts board of squares a chessboard has 64 squares. You could say that chess is easier. You just need to conquer the enemy king.
With draughts you have to capture all the pieces. Jannes van der Wal and Ton Sijbrands are deserving chess players. Draughts players are more inventive and play less according to the theory. The ten-fold world champion of draughts on the squares Alexei Tsjizjov says that chess is easier than draughts. A draughts player can see fifteen moves ahead.
Timman is doing only four moves ahead. Cornetz: "At the risk that I will hit on the nerve of many chess players I say that chess is more difficult to learn than draughts, but draughts is actually much harder than chess. In Schaeffer published his results. His program, Chinook, plays perfect checkers and cannot be beaten. If its opponent plays equally well, the game will end in a draw. So, game over! Checkers is a fair game and the game will always end in a draw if both players make optimal moves at each step of the game.
In the chess program Deep Fritz beat world champion Vladimir Kramnik by Draughts on the square board: From April 9 to 14 a Man-Machine battle in international draughts took place in Heerhugowaard, Holland, as a side event to the Dutch National championship in international draughts.
A match with triple world champion Alexander Schwarzman, from Russia on one side of the board and Maximus , a computer draughts program from The Netherlands on the other side. Schwarzman won the match with one win and five draws. Still now there is no program that can beat the world champion of draughts on a square board. Whatever it may be, the debate of whether draughts or chess is more difficult will always remain.
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An iconography of draughts. The game spread throughout the world today. Players from more than 50 countries took part in official competitions for Russian version of draughts Draughts in Brazil started to develop in the 30s of the twentieth century. Players played on a board 8 X 8 to the rules of draughts 10 X The game became known as Brazilian draughts. The game is very popular in Brazil.
The history of checkers can be traced to the very cradle of civilization, where vestiges of the earliest form of the game was unearthed in an archeological dig in the ancient city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia, which is now modern day Iraq. Using a slightly different board, no one is sure of the exact rules of the game which was carbon dated at B.
A similar game using a 5x5 board, called Alquerque is known to have existed in ancient Egypt as far back as B. This Egyptian version was so popular that man played it for thousands of years. Then, in the year A. This modified game was then called "Fierges" or "Ferses," but it was more appropriately called as "Le Jeu Plaisant De Dames," because it was considered a women's social game. Later, the game was made more challenging by making jumps mandatory and so, this newer version was referred to as "Jeu Force.
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