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DANICAN(6) DANICAN(6)
NAME
danican - International draughts.
SYNOPSIS
danican [ -ssize ] [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
The X-Window program Danican lets you play international
draughts. This game is slightly different from the one
known as draughts in UK and checkers in US. Mainly:
* Board is 10x10 instead of 8x8.
* A man may capture backwards.
* Majority capture precedes.
* A king is a long-range piece.
This software was named Danican in tribute to F.-A. Dani-
can-Philidor, most famous chess and draughts player of the
18th century.
Option
-s Sets the size in pixel of one square of the board.
Notes
Players can be both human; one human, one computer; both
computer. If a player is set to computer, one has to click
on the board to let it start playing. If both players are
computer, one has to click on the board at each move.
Danican allows to save and load games using a limited ver-
sion of PDN (Portable Draughts Notation). For now, the
program is unable to handle genuine PDN files.
FILES
base.pdn
The opening database.
rules.txt
Comprehensive rules of the game.
CREDIT
The file base.pdn is mainly based on the file textbook.pdn
which comes with the archive DragonDraughts-0.2.zip.
DragonDraughts is copyright (C) 1996, Michel Grimminck.
AUTHOR
Christian Obrecht <[email protected]>.
CONTACT
The canonical home page for Danican is
<http://obrecht.fr/danican>.
Send bug reports and comments to <[email protected]>.