Archive for April 29th, 2009

KCheckers isn’t very good at all, but Cake is no cake walk….

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Milhouse utterly destroys kcheckers. This game is typical of the five I just played against it.

[Event "KCheckers Game"]
[Date "2009.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[Black "*Master*"]
[White "Milhouse"]
[Result "0-1"]
[GameType "21"]
1. 12-16 22-18 2. 8-12 24-19 3. 10-15 19x10 4. 7x14 25-22
5. 9-13 18x9 6. 5x14 23-19 7. 16x23 27x9 8. 12-16 26-23
9. 6-10 22-18 10. 11-15 18x11 11. 16-20 9-5 12. 1-6 5-1
13. 3-7 23-18 14. 7x16 18-14 15. 10x17 1x10 16. 17-22 31-27
17. 16-19 27-24 18. 20x27 32x16 19. 22-26 30x23
20. 4-8 28-24 21. 13-17 21x14 22. 8-11 16x7 23. 2x11 10-7
24. 11-16 24-20 25. 16-19 23x16 0-1

On the other hand, I got Martin Fierz’s Checkerboard program running under wine on my Macbook, and it’s “Cake” engine made pretty short work of my program. 

[Event "Sparring"]
[Date "2009-04-29"]
[Black "Milhouse"]
[White "Cake"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. 11-15 24-19 2. 15x24 28x19 3. 8-11 22-18 4. 10-14 27-24 5. 7-10 24-20 6. 3-8 19-16 7.
12x19 23x7 8. 2x11 26-23 9. 10-15 25-22 10. 8-12 31-27 11. 6-10 30-25 12. 1-6 22-17 13.
15x22 25x18 14. 11-15 18x11 15. 9-13 11-7 16. 13x22 7-2 17. 5-9 2-7 18. 4-8 21-17 19. 14x21
7x5 20. 21-25 5-1 21. 6-9 1-6 22. 9-13 6-10 23. 25-30 23-19 24. 8-11 27-24 25. 22-26 32-28
26. 11-15 10-14 27. 13-17 19x10 28. 17-22 20-16 29. 12x19 24x15 30. 26-31 14-18 31. 22-26
18-23 32. 30-25 23x21 0-1

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