Wednesday, March 16, 2005

GUI checkers 0.90

One month ago, I wrote about a small checkers program called GUI checkers 0.80 by Jon Kreuzer. He just released version 0.90 which you can download on his homepage. Great news: the new version is also available as a dll for CheckerBoard. It is much stronger than simple checkers, but also still clearly weaker than Cake or KingsRow. The lack of book and endgame database is too big a handicap. GUI also comes with source code, where you can look at some more advanced techniques which are not demonstrated in simple checkers, such as hashtables and forward pruning.
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4 comments:

  1. Nelson Castillo3/16/2005 8:14 PM

    It's nice to know you have a Computer Checkers Weblog. Will be reading... CB has a lot of engines now.

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  2. Bungerting Baloner3/17/2005 5:57 PM

    Hmm... I recall an earlier version as being rather a weak player. I will have to test the latest. --Bob Newell

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  3. Martin Fierz3/18/2005 10:11 PM

    Hi Nelson!

    CB has some engines already, but one more is always welcome. How about porting your damas engine to the CB interface?

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  4. Nelson Castillo3/19/2005 4:48 PM

    Hi !

    I lost the Damas source code :(

    I've been thinking of a new checkers engine with a very fast move generator...

    I also promised the TCP/IP proxy, and I haven't forgotten. I was thinking it could be quite useful in tournaments.

    I still haven't fixed my PC.

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