Checkersland PC.

This program supports more than 20 kinds of checkers and can be run on different Operating Systems. It allows to play with other people via the Internet and has high level AI.

Supported features:

  • Kinds of checkers:
    80-celluar, armenian, brazilian, canadian, checkers (american), corners, croda, czech, diagonal, give-away, international (polish), italian, laska, lika, pool, russian, spanish, Sri Lankian, stavropol, thai, towers, turkish
  • OS: Windows, Linux, MacOS and Solaris.
  • Opponents: human - computer, computer - human, human - human
  • Play with people across Local Network and via the Internet
  • Eight levels of difficulty with playing with computer
  • Eight interface languages: English, Russian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish. The program allows to add any new language
  • Few predefined skins and possibility to make own skins. Supported many look and feels.
  • Saving and loading files with the game history in PDN (Portable Draughts Notation) format
  • Saving diagram in PNG, JPG and other bitmap formats

Distributive information:

  • Version: 2.4
  • Release date: 28.11.2008
OS Size Distributives
Windows 95/../XP 310 kb checkersland.exe
Windows 95/../Vista, Linux, MacOS and Solaris
(run by the command java -jar checkersland.jar) 		280 kb checkersland.jar
Examples with external languages and skins (extract this archive into a game folder and restart an application). 2.5 mb extension.zip

All distributives require java 1.6 or higher. Go to Sun site and install "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6".

A high-level logic has been implemeted for many types of the game. The next table shows computer strength for different types of the game (from 0 to 10, 10 - the best):

Kinds of checkers AI strength
Laska 10
Towers 9
Russian, brazilian, diagonal, give-away, pool 8
Armenian, turkish 7
Spanish, italian, thai, checkers, czech 6
80-celluar 3
International 2
Canadian, Sri Lankian 1

Dear checkers fans! If you have an idea to translate the user interface of this program into your language or just have some skin you want to share, please write me.