Chess & Checkers

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About this game

Draughts and chess are popular board games in which there is no place for chance. They improve tactics and strategy.

Features of the application are:
• fast artificial intelligence that is easy to customize to your level of play
• many game types: russian draughts, chess, checkers, international draughts, frisian, brazilian, reversi, corners and other (64 in total)
• creation of a huge number of checkers and chess games according to your rules
• the ability to configure your own position
• position analysis will suggest the best move and game analysis will find errors
• network game via Bluetooth or WiFi

Remember, you can always win!
Have a nice game.

Ratings and reviews

I have a 50/50, love/hate, relationship with this game. I have not won a single game out of all of the game modes, and I haven't seen a single review of someone winning. Even the best players would find it imposible to win because it forces you to play certain moves to, per se, all of the Checkers game modes. If there is a chance to collect a game piece, the game makes that your only avalible move. And for Chess, the same. And yet, you loose a (few) piece(s) when taking one from your opponent.

Plays both chess with Stockfish 11 and a variety of checker variations. This includes the rare and most challenging Frisian Checkers. The one improvement that I would like in the latter is that the computer show the path of the capturing moves as they can be quite complex. As it is now the checker travels in a straight line from the starting point to the end of the move. I generally need to back the move up just to see what the capturing sequence was.

To the team. The game is very strong and good for training. The weaknesses are few. You cannot be able to locate where the saved games are. It cannot show the full coordinates for the recent games as well as it has no rundom openings. Otherwise if these weaknesses I have observed were there I wouldn't hesitate rating it 5 ⭐.

What's new

• tables of draw for jamaican, filipino, czech, tanzanian and mozambican draughts (in additional settings)
• support of blocking squares for corners (aka halma)
• stockfish 17
• new design