Welcome to Dame checkers board!


As of to date, you may run the program, play a game against yourself,
simplech or checkers, and then another, let checkers fight simplech,
change initial settings and quit, whithout crashing or failing silently.

(Thats what I wrote a month ago, and it did not prove, so its here again.)

Dame imposes on any player the rules known as british draughts.  As a
compile time option it presents an eight by eight board.

The graphics for pieces and patches can be changed by supplying self-
made pictures in .tiff, .jpeg, .png, .xpm, .gif file formats.  For
details study those that came with this archive.

Forthcoming releases will provide means to play across the internet:
watch your friend compete witch chinook believing its you, believing
its her.


Why gnome ?

Why not gtk? gnome in my opinion is gtk. Why gtk? It appeared to me a
toolkit acceptable also on this old computer I am using. Its standard
colours are light enough to read from a button. It seemed not to want
a lot of coding skills. It promises to spread many systems soon (what
with netscape built using it), requiring no additional installations.

Gnome seems to me at once a useful extension to gtk regarding user
configurabilty and beyond there an engaged stab at the desktop, though
I am not sure about the necessity. At last its some kind of artwork.


Why at all ?

 
Credits

Courtesy of Lena Petrovic <lenap@CS.Princeton.EDU> and John Langford
Dame comes with "checkers", a nice computer player.

Courtesy of Martin Fierz <mafierz@ibm.net> Dame comes with simplech,
a tricky opponent.

(You should be aware of the fact, that simplech in its lowest level
plays stronger than checkers on its highest, the naming of simplech
I can only understand as an attitude of understatement towards his
program by the author.)

The "mc_checkers" theme is taken from John Thornley's and David
Sinclair's Mac Checkers application.

Jim Loy lets you read his informative book on checkers, while it isn't
printed yet, http://www.mcn.net/~jimloy/checkers.html


Peter Chiocchetti <girbal@super.tacheles.de>

created   Sam Okt 31 12:41:12 CET 1998
last mod. Son Nov 22 23:20:57 CET 1998

this seems too long ago ?  Look at
http://super.tacheles.de/girbal/dame/


If you feel like it, send me a postcard:
Peter Chiocchetti
Drferstrae 19
A-6063  Rum
AUSTRIA

