Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Which program is the best for American Draughts? ..KingRow? Sage6000??

Author: Tanya Deborah

Date: 01:22:00 07/02/01

Go up one level in this thread


On July 01, 2001 at 11:26:13, martin fierz wrote:

>On June 30, 2001 at 00:48:49, Tanya Deborah wrote:
>>>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 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

>>...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.
>

Many Thanks Martin... But i definitely know that Cake++ is a very strong engine,
very hard to beat!!

Martin, How many engines can support checkerboard?? Only KingsRow and Cake++ ?

Regards!
Tanya, D
>best regards
>  martin



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.