The American Checker Federation

For those of you with draughts based computer code, stumbled over some intreresting notes. m I found I had to rename the file to 'learning-draughts.pdf' (dropping the .GZ extension as apparently it's not compressed). Excerpt: 'This paper describes several aspects of using temporal difference learnin...

Taken from m by John W. Johnston, thought some of you might enjoy this. More than just a game Once upon a time, my Father taught me to play Draughts. He explained the moves, forwards not back, diagonal not straight, jump over a piece to take it, get to the other side to be King'd then become all-pow...

The resource tag as I'm intending to use it (assuming the app has an export feature) allows a pointer to dynamic content to be embedded in a game file. Its not static minded but rather provides a degree extensibility. Its equatable to a hyperlink that would allow more detail to be shown. Who knows, ...

Bingo! You've nailed it spot on Matt. Speaking only for myself here... My idea simply allows you open a document, if that document as an association, then windows will open it with the associated executable. For instance: txt/Notepad doc/Word html/browser Another example: Visualize a diagram within ...

Looks good Murray. I wish your work continued success. It's a solid program.

Re: Michael, you aren't taking the security side of things seriously enough.

Via: http://www.nemesis.info/help/features.htm

'All versions of Nemesis contain the following:

XML file format supported; Documents can be opened from the Internet or from local files'

Devil take the hindmost buddy, I press forward still.

Hey Matt.

So there is no hard & fast rule, I take it. Thanks.

Hi Murray. When and if the app in question is born, I'll let community consensus be the judge. Thanks for your input.

I'd like to ask another silly newbie question folks =) When reading/writing diagrams -as the board faces you-, is red (black or darker that is) ontop or bottom? Looks mainly to be topmost from what I've read. The reason I ask is that while the board is consistently numbered the same across all the b...

Howdy Murray, glad you chimed in with your thoughts, thank you kind sir. I'll kindly rebutt them in order. The major problem with this of course, is one of security. If PDN files had this kind of power, it opens them up to abuse. If a PDN reader simply trusted any PDN file it opened (and accessed al...

Re: One hint: If a board looks too good, you begin to look at the beauty of it, instead of the position, so "keep it simple"

Hi Ingo.

Good point. Too many distractions can spoil the experience. Is checkers popular in Germany?

Re: siberic-cold...

Try to stay warm if you can! =) Tsch

Re: Another source for regulation sets and numbered boards for study...

Hi Bob.

Thanks for reference, appreciate it!

So, how did you become involved in checkers? (Just new guy small talk =)

Howdy Alan.

Thanks for the heads up, appericate it. Would you belive this was my first choice? Seems the ACF store is out of checkers :/

Well, decided to grab a more substantial checker set than what I now have (two sets, the typical folding board with red/black plastic pieces and a small 5in.x5in. study board). After reading <Bob Newell's article on obtaining a regulation set> , a sobering hunt ensued... Hoping to strike a reasonabl...

Hi Matt.

For an IDE I use <TextPad>. (Mainly because I dabble in alot of languages and this gives me a single IDE for all).

For a free compiler, checkout <Pelles C>. Which has a nice IDE btw.