Download damas.zip (167KB) from geocities or triplejump
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Damas is a very strong freeware Checkers/Draughts program! You will need to be a very good player to beat Damas. It comes with different playing strength levels plus the two-player level, you can set up positions and save games. It's fast and easy to use. I can assure you that Damas is a good choice for practicing your game and having fun. Unfortunately Damas99 is getting old and I'm not planning to update it soon. |
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Martin Fierz has written a great checkers program, CheckerBoard. Actually, CB is more than a checkers program, he's turned it into a checkers interface that can use various engines. You can even write your own engine and take advantage of the interface! His engine is called Cake++, it uses endgame databases! I really like CB =) |
| If you want to write your own checkers program then it would be good to read source code and to study the minimax algorithm, it will help you understand the way a computer can play a game like checkers. The most used algorithm is called Minimax, there are many further improvements to this algorithm. Well, you will be able to find a simple checkers C source code in the Martin Fierz's Home Page. It might be a starting point if you want to write your own checkers program, you will also find a page on strategy game programming which explains general concepts. |
| I also have a C++ simple checkers game with source code, although the move generator is slower than the Martin's. I've compiled it under Linux and under Windows. Download simple.zip(39k). |
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Last modified: 1/12/2003, 08:45
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