Chinese checkers
Chinese Checkers Strategy by Darren A. Chilton
1. Get as far as possible
Well one of the most basic strategies of the game is of course to get as far as possible! But during play, it is not always the best move to go to the very end of a jump, sometimes you have to block your opponent. Although they may not like this, it is a real advantage to block them. Of course if you imagine a computer player, they will do this automatically if they think one extra move ahead!
2. Keep moves near a centre line
If you split up your pieces at the wrong moment you'll find that you will be left with a lonesome piece which will take you a lot of wasted moves to get it in. Also, there are always more pieces in the center line than to the edges. So keeping your pieces near the center line is an important advantage as you can always move your pieces!
3. Get into the goal area
If you have your pieces inside the goal area then it is also easier to feed following pieces in. The two outer edges seem to be more of an advantage. Often you may shuffle the pieces inside the goal to get more in, but don't overdo it, you have to get the external pieces in in the shortest number of moves!
4. The piece furthest away from goal
This is a major help in play you should always check your last piece because it can quite rapidly become stranded and you will lose the game. Basically before making a move always check if you can get the last piece up!
I am currently writing a Chinese Checkers program in my spare time and as yet it can calculate faster and can also beat all of the games I've so far downloaded. I don't know at this moment if it will be freeware or shareware...
Features:
- Fast calculation speed
- Multiplayer Human / Computer
- High score board
- Different move animation options
- Board design mode option
- Undo/Redo moves
- Heuristics : Recurser, PrincipalVariation and AlphaBeta configuration
No web site as yet, but here is a friends site where my game will be released
http://www.edwardsmale.force9.co.uk [1] (http://www.edwardsmale.force9.co.uk)
You may contact me on
d.chilton@worldonline.fr
Darren.(The game is afoot!)
Created : 27th April 2005
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