Checkers program

Checkers program focuses on introducing the younger kids to the sport, so they have built a relationship with other programs in the Charlotte area to make sure these young athletes can continue their progress. They can use [Bojangles Coliseum] and be able to skate in our building, which makes the travel not as bad for some of these families, especially those who live in Lake Norman. Checkers program is creating a launch pad for the continued growth of youth hockey in Charlotte.

Promotions Games Transactions Features. Winter Packs. Read More. Get a limited-edition Charlotte Night t-shirt and a game ticket for Saturday, Jan. Throwback Week Games on Jan. A checkers tutorial by grandmaster Richard Pask will improve your checkers skills.

You can add moves to a user book to force the engine to play certain lines - or to improve the opening book supplied with the engine. You can create multiple user books and select which one to use. Diagram-to-clipboard and notation-to-clipboard functions allow you to quickly paste your games into other programs like word for publication. A toolbar gives you rapid access to the most important commands.

A status bar lets the checkers engine display extensive information about the search. The window is fully resizeable from very small to very big - a feature which is surprisingly missing in some commercial programs. I have put them here for historical reasons. Please note: these engines are all compiled for 64 bit and will only work with a bit install of CheckerBoard! Also, these engines need the Cake databases, and will not work with Ed Gilbert's improved databases, whereas the current version of Cake can also use the KingsRow databases.

Warning, old! CheckerBoard 1. Package with CheckerBoard 1. I recommend getting the most current version of CheckerBoard at Ed Gilbert's site instead. It also comes with Cake 1. The same as the above, but for bit Windows. The opening book for Suicidal Cake KB. An opening book for Suicidal Cake, generated with the 8-piece suicide checkers endgame database.

It contains 35' positions. The installation is the same as for the huge opening book for Cake. Cake endgame databases for use with Cake. Ed Gilbert's KingsRow endgame databases are more efficient than these, so use those if possible. The only reason to keep them here is if you want to use the older engines that you can download here. It also fixes a bug in the search which could cause the endgame database to malfunction. After making a lot of evaluation improvements in Cake 1.

The result is Cake 1. It's still not in the league of the machine-learned KingsRow, but it's far closer than it used to be. It also fixes a bug in the book access code that could make Cake 1. Alternatively, you can download the entire current CheckerBoard setup at Ed Gilbert's English checkers website. His latest installers include Cake 1. Since Cake 1.