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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It could be a case of game over for draughts - scientists say the ancient board game has finally been solved. A Canadian team has created a computer program that can win or draw any game, no matter ...

100-year-old draughts board restored to its former glory A 14-year-old boy has helped to restore a draughts board dating back 100 years and once used by a child prodigy. Born in Quarry Road, Graigwen, ...

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 ...

The time probably will come when one electronic computer will telephone another electronic computer and say, “I’m smarter than you are!” And the other computer will say, “Oh, no you’re not.” And the ...

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 ...

Although London isn't exactly short on things to do, we’d never say no to a new board game cafe. If, like us, you also enjoy competitive socialising, then we have some pretty exciting news. The games ...