I had some trouble to get jCheckers running on my own office PC... so I thought I better try something easier and played around with Java web start and produced the following test page - now that is much cooler!
I only had a few minutes to use it. Looks good. No problems in operations. Played two games vs. Boozer5982 at 5 seconds per move. One win and one draw. I did not have much time to evaluate. Will do so later.
Martin is a Swiss physicist and former Swiss junior chess champion. He is the author of Checkerboard, a popular free checkers interface, and of Cake, one of the world's finest checkers engines. His simple checkers engine powers three different iPhone apps by independent developers. Last but not least, he is the author of a checkers app for the Android platform. When not programming checkers, he develops aerosol instrumentation, and spends a lot of his free time in the Swiss alps.
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Hi Martin,
I only had a few minutes to use it. Looks good. No problems in operations. Played two games vs. Boozer5982 at 5 seconds per move. One win and one draw.
I did not have much time to evaluate. Will do so later.
PDN below.
[Event "BzVsJCheckersByMartinWon"]
[Date "2010-03-30"]
[Black "Bz"]
[White "JCheckers"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. 11-15 23-19 2. 9-14 27-23 3. 8-11 22-18 4. 15x22 25x9 5. 5x14 29-25 6. 6-9 25-22 7. 9-13
22-18 8. 14-17 21x14 9. 10x17 18-14 10. 17-22 26x17 11. 13x22 23-18 12. 2-6 31-27 13. 3-8
27-23 14. 22-26 32-27 15. 11-16 30-25 16. 26-31 25-22 17. 6-10 14-9 18. 7-11 22-17 19.
31-26 9-5 20. 26-22 18-14 21. 22x13 14x7 22. 16-20 7-3 23. 13-9 3-7 24. 11-15 19x10 25.
8-11 7x16 26. 12x26 24-19 27. 26-30 10-7 28. 4-8 1-0
[Event "jCheckersVsBz5982Draw"]
[Date "2010-03-30"]
[Black "jCheckers"]
[White "Bz"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1. 11-15 22-17 2. 9-14 25-22 3. 8-11 17-13 4. 4-8 23-19 5. 15-18 22x15 6. 11x18 29-25 7.
10-15 19x10 8. 6x15 26-23 9. 8-11 24-19 10. 15x24 28x19 11. 1-6 30-26 12. 7-10 19-15 13.
10x19 23x7 14. 3x10 27-24 15. 12-16 24-20 16. 16-19 13-9 17. 6x13 26-23 18. 19x26 31x6 19.
2x9 20-16 1/2-1/2
Hey Steve,
thanks for testing. I see I will have to improve the checkers skills of my Java engine :-)
cheers
Martin
Hello,
I've tried jCheckers on my PC and Mac. It worked fine on PC of course, but on my Mac it would not load.
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