You must extract the zip-files into the 'db' The only reason to keep them here is if you want to use the older engines that you can download here. Ed Gilbert's KingsRow endgame databases are more efficient than these, so use those if possible. Cake endgame databases for use with Cake.The installation is the same as for the huge opening book for Cake. The opening book for Suicidal Cake (336KB).Īn opening book for Suicidal Cake, generated with the 8-piece suicide checkers endgame database.The same as the above, but for 64-bit Windows. I recommend getting the most current version of CheckerBoard at Ed Gilbert's site instead. The 4-piece endgame database for Cake, Easy Checkers, Simple Checkers (+ source code), Dama (+ source code), Kingscourt Cake, Suicidal CakeĪ game database with hundreds of games by Marion Tinsley, and a checkers tutorial for beginners by Package with CheckerBoard 1.72, Cake 1.81, a 93'000 move opening book for Cake, Warning, old! CheckerBoard 1.72 (2047 KB) with.Work with Ed Gilbert's improved databases, whereas the current version of Cake can also use the KingsRow databases. Please note: these engines are all compiled for 64 bit and will only work with a 64-bit install of CheckerBoard! Also, these engines need the Cake databases, and will not Unzip the file cake_oldversions.zip into your engines folder in CheckerBoard. I have put them here for historical reasons. They are great engines, but much weaker than the incredible machine-learned engines we have today. These are historical versions of Cake, at times when it was probably the world's best checkers engine (from 2003, Cake Sans Souci, to probably 2018, Cake 1.85). dll will only work with a 64-bit install of CheckerBoard! Ideally, you download CheckerBoard in its latest incarnation from Ed Gilbert's Unzip the file cake_189f.dll, book.bin and the help file (cake189.htm) into your engines folder in CheckerBoard, and egdb64.dll in the CheckerBoard folder to use it. Cake 1.89f 64-bit with new opening book (2449 KB).Alternate piece sets for CheckerBoard can be downloaded on the piece sets page!ĬheckerBoard base package and add-ons by Martin Fierz

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