Why "Aurora Borealis Draughts professional" is the best choice?

It's an excellent partner for playing draughts

The built-in program engine plays at a strong master level in Russian, Brazilian and Pool draughts. Lower levels for amateur players are also available.

The Aurora Borealis 3.0 engine won silver at the Draughts Programs Europe Championship in Moscow (2007), and version 3.6 won silver at teh Unofficial World Championship in Poland (2016) (Both in Russian draughts).

However, you can also use free external engines for play and analysis (version 2.x only!): 'KingsRow' by Ed Gilbert (English and Italian draughts) and 'Kallisto' by Igor Korshunov (Russian, Brazilian and Pool draughts) both are world-class engines and already included in Aurora Borealis 2.11 professional Kit.

You can play and analyse 14 draughts variations: English (American checkers), Italian (Dama Italiana), Russian, Brazilian, Spanish, Czech, American Pool, Thai and Turkish (8x8 board); International, Killer and Frisian (10x10 board); Spantsireti (8x10 board); and Canadian (12x12 board).

"Aurora Borealis professional" was the first multi-draughts database program (launched in 1999) and remains one the largest and most powerful today. It allows you to easily analyse and annotate your games, add variations, organize databases, and export them for printing or the web.

Aurora Borealis Draughts professional offers powerful database tools, such as:

• fast and convenient search (by names, tournaments, positions, patterns, combinations, etc.) ;
• statistics tree (immediately shows statistics for the current position, eliminating the need to search the entire database);
• copy, sort and organize your games databases easiar than you can imagine;
• PDN database import/export support, allowing seamless trasnfer to and from other programs;
• export games to Rich Text Format (RTF), compatible with Microsoft Word and other text processors. This is the easiest and way to prepare games for publication, see example;
• export games to HTML files to publish your annotated games on websites, see JavaScript and plain HTML examples.

Features:

• Play and analyze 14 of the world's most popular draughts variations with any time control
  
• Large opening books and learning databases
  
• Endgame databases (up to 10-pieces for 64 games, and 8 pieces for International)
  
• Modern "anti-human" playing style
  
• Self-teaching option
  
• Interactive and automatic game analysis
  
• Powerful database tools