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I tried the slagzet web page a few minutes ago on my (yellow) HTC 8X windows phone (I love the phone, by the way).

The game runs ok in the phone, you can touch the piece positions and they move. Due to being a web page, the graphics are not too nice, and the interface is very basic.

Below is the ...

Hi, I would love to, but unfortunately I am not planning on adding International Checkers support. The reason is that it would require a rewrite of pretty much all the game.

I coded the board in an 8x8 bitboard, and all the game is highly optimized for extremely high performance using this board ...

Well, you can also get Windows 8 (Win RT, also known as Windows Metro).

Checkers Pro is now also available on Windows 8.The game is a bit stronger on Windows due to more processing poder.



Bernardo

Very interesting discussion Ed. I also tried the free version first of teeny checkers, but was too easy, with no options.

During all my previous app testing I found that ~80% of the phone apps don't implement correctly the rule to 'stop move when king becomes king and then can jump again'. Probably ...

Well, you piqued my curiosity, so I ran a (totally unscientific) test of 6 games with the two apps: Checkers Pro for Windows Phone in level 8, vs iPhone Teeny Checkers with the slider in highest difficulty, half where Checkers Pro started, half Teeny Checkers started.

The score?
Teeny Checkers won ...

Unfortunately, my app is only available in Windows Phone.

I found no iPhone game with opening book, and even at the highest levels they were not too strong (I might be wrong, but did not find any).

The iPhone games that I thought were the best:

a) http://itunes.apple.com/app/checkers-premium ...

Hi, if anyone is using Windows Phone, I wanted to let you all know that Checkers Pro is available (both in free and paid versions). It plays using English rules.

I think it is a a reasonable strong program -- the best that I could do with the limited resources on a phone. I manually tested it vs ...