Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
The Checker Maven
Bob Newell's The Checker Maven is a very interesting online publication on Checkers and Draughts. This week's issue features checkers applications for Android.
Bob looked at many checkers programs but concluded that the only two application that merit consideration are Checkers Tutor, by world class checker programmer Martin Fierz (author of CheckerBoard and the Cake computer engine), and .... Checkers for Android by yours truly! I am honored to receive this special mention by The Checker Maven.
You can find the summary article at the main page. A more elaborate overview, including interviews with Martin and myself and be found in the full article.
Many thanks to Bob for posting this article.
Bob looked at many checkers programs but concluded that the only two application that merit consideration are Checkers Tutor, by world class checker programmer Martin Fierz (author of CheckerBoard and the Cake computer engine), and .... Checkers for Android by yours truly! I am honored to receive this special mention by The Checker Maven.
You can find the summary article at the main page. A more elaborate overview, including interviews with Martin and myself and be found in the full article.
Many thanks to Bob for posting this article.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Checkers for Android
Revisiting checkers programming, I just released version 2.5 of Checkers for Android, both at the Google Play and as direct download. New features include:
UPDATE: version 2.5.1 improves the animation as shrinking pieces (some users thought the older fading pieces were "drag delay"!), adds more endgame knowledge, and shows kings more clearly.
- simple animation of captured pieces
- added a slight delay in single-move response
- added transposition table to engine
- more time controls
UPDATE: version 2.5.1 improves the animation as shrinking pieces (some users thought the older fading pieces were "drag delay"!), adds more endgame knowledge, and shows kings more clearly.
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