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12. maart 2008, 19:42:59

AbigailII

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Onderwerp: Cheat sheet.

With nine close related checkers variants, it may be hard to remember which rules apply to which game. Therefore, I made a cheat sheet, condensing all the rules.


                         +-------------+
                         |   Captures  |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Name   | Size  | Prom. | bw lc lr pp |                                      |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| US     |  8x8  | King  | N  N  Pe N  |                                      |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Czech  |  8x8  | Queen | N  N  Pe Y  |                                      |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Inter. | 10x10 | Queen | Y  Y  Cb N  |                                      |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Canada | 12x12 | Queen | Y  Y  Cb N  |                                      |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Brazil |  8x8  | Queen | Y  Y  Cb N  |                                      |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Russia |  8x8  | Queen | Y  N  Pc N  |                                      |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Thai   |  8x8  | Queen | N  N  Pe N  | Queen lands directly after stone.    |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Port.  |  8x8  | Queen | N  Y  Pe N  | Capture most queens.                 |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Italy  |  8x8  | King  | N  Y  Pe Y  | 1) Longest capture preference.       |
|        |       |       |             | 2) Capture with King preference.     |
|        |       |       |             | 3) Capture most Kings preference.    |
|        |       |       |             | 4) Capture first King preference.    |
+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------------------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------+
| Captures                                             |
+------------------------------------------------------+
| bw:  Stones capture backwards.                       |
| lc:  Longest capture mandatory.                      |
| lr:  Capturing stone reaches last row:               |
|      Pe:  Promotes, and turn ends.                   |
|      Cb:  Continue capturing backwards, if possible. |
|      Pc:  Promotes, continue capturing if possible.  |
| pp:  Capturing with a promoted piece has preference. |
+------------------------------------------------------+