Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:26:13 07/01/01
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On June 30, 2001 at 00:48:49, Tanya Deborah wrote: >I am trying to find the best American draughts program (Free or Comercial.) > >It is true that the program named KingRow is the best free American draughts >program over Internet? More than Sage6000 ???? > >KingRow can be used in Checkerboard program (by Martin Fierz). Cake++ Also is >another strong engine, but i don´t know which is the better engine for >Checkerboard. How many engines can be use into Checkerboard? > >...I find Nexus Demo also like a very strong program, and of course Sage6000 a >very good program in the Comercial programs. > >Somebody here can tell me about the real strenght of all this programs? >Which is really the best ? and why? there is unfortunately no computer checkers championship where all programmers would enter their product, so i cannot really answer this question. i do know that kingsrow is better than my engine, cake++ :-( kingsrow is surely the strongest free program. there are 5 commercials, world championship checkers (only for mac), wyllie, nexus, sage and colossus. of these, colossus is no longer in development as far as i know and i would venture to say that sage is the weakest. at the moment, the american checkers federation has an email ladder going, most programs play, only colossus and sage don't. my program is losing its match against wyllie, kingsrow is winning probably against the successor of nexus, and the successor of nexus was winning against WCC when the WCC programmer decided to stop playing... my program is handicapped by a nearly complete lack of book, but i'm not trying to make excuses. if you want the best program to play a match, i would take either kingsrow or wyllie. best regards martin
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