During my site redesign at the end of 2005, a lot of old pages remained unlinked. I wanted
my checkers site to be a bit more user-friendly, and therefore threw out some of the older
and more technical pages. However, if you are interested in more than just downloading
CheckerBoard and playing some casual games, then this In Depth page contains a lot of
information that you might find interesting! Another source for more in-depth information
is my
Computer Checkers Blog.
Strategy Game Programming Tutorial
Have you ever wondered how programs like Cake work? Check out my
tutorial on strategy game programming!
Checkers Articles
I wrote a bunch of short articles on computer checkers:
Suicide Checkers
I programmed a suicide checkers engine - Suicidal Cake - that plays the suicide variant of the game (also known as anti-checkers or losing checkers or giveaway checkers). In this variant, the goal is to lose the game. Read more about Suicidal Cake on its own
suicide checkers page.
Checkers Games
Links to all replayable games on this website. Most of them are by some version of Cake, but there is the
occasional piece of analysis on other games too.
- Samuel's Checkers Program - Robert Nealy - Exhibition Game, 1962, 0-1
- Tom Canning - Cake++ 1.4x beta - Banks Ladder 2002, Wilderness 1, 0-1
- Tom Canning - Cake++ 1.4x beta - Banks Ladder 2002, Black Widow, 1-0
- Cake las Vegas - KingsRow
- Las Vegas Computer Checkers Championship 2002, Gemini 1, 0-1
- Cake las Vegas - Nemesis - Las Vegas Computer Checkers Championship 2002, draw
- KingsRow - Cake las Vegas - Las Vegas Computer Checkers Championship 2002, 0-1
- Cake las Vegas - Nemesis - Las Vegas Computer Checkers Championship 2002, draw
- Cake las Vegas - Nemesis - Las Vegas Computer Checkers Championship 2002, Wilderness 1, 0-1
- Cake las Vegas - KingsRow - Las Vegas Computer Checkers Championship 2002, Wilderness 1, draw
- Al Lyman + Wyllie Program - Alex Moiseyev + Clint Olsen - Partner Game on MSN zone 2002 with analysis by Cake Sans Souci, Twilight Zone, 0-1
- Cake Sans Souci 1.04 - WCC gold plus, 1-0 - Game 4 of a test match between WCC and Cake
- Cake Sans Souci 1.04 - WCC gold plus, 1-0 - Game 5
- WCC gold plus - Cake Sans Souci 1.04, draw - Game 6 - an entertaining game where Cake goes man-down
- WCC gold plus - Cake Sans Souci 1.04, 0-1 - Game 7
- Cake Manchester 1.05 - KingsRow 1.14o, 1-0 - Cake takes the lead in the Zürich match in a 3x2 Fife, where KingsRow's book appears rather weak
- KingsRow 1.14o - Cake Manchester 1.05, 1-0 - KingsRow strikes back in the double cross when Cake plays into a known book loss with 10. ...24-20??
- Cake Manchester 1.05 - KingsRow 1.14o, 1-0 - Cake takes the lead in the New Jersey Match
- KingsRow 1.14o - Cake Manchester 1.05, 0-1 - A bad opening by KingsRow decides the New Jersey Match in favor of Cake
-- December 26, 2009