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SAGE4000 is out now!


It looks really good, with 256 colour graphics, picture-button controls for most functions, sprite animation, separate move-list analysis/clock/board windows (resizable) game comments/annotation, draughts true-type fonts for board - printing, powerful opening book-database which can contain set-up positions and auto-find transpositions (& sides-reversed pos). If you want to improve the book, a simple add-line-to-book function exists, and the ability to mark each move ?,<,=,>,! (weak to strong, 5 grades).

It can automatically analyse complete games move-by-move, saving the results in a text file. It can analyse sets of EPD positions, again posting the results (best line, eval) to a file. SAGE supports PDN (Portable Draughts Notation) Database format - a new way to annotate/store large numbers of games via simple text files. Analysis (bestline/eval) can be spooled to a txt file while you play. Tournement style White/Black clocks are give, together with ability to set play-level in secs/move or x moves in x time.. Multi-lingual support is built in.

All functions are implemented with a terrific user interface - most are available with a simple mouse-click on a picture-icon button.

Playing strength is substantially improved over older versions - SAGE4000 recently won the SamCohen event, and has a good track record against the worlds top players. SAGE plays both English and Italian draughts up to Master strength, and costs 37 pounds or $59 US fully inclusive.
BLITZ DRAUGHTS 5.4 - the strongest shareware draughts program available - many features - neat resizable board, nice graphics, many features.. Includes screen shot of new SAGE 4000 program for Windows, and text on new PDN (Draughts equivalent of PGN) standard.
DYNAMO DRAUGHTS - DYNAMO is what we call a WINDOS program - it can run under DOS (and hence Win95, Win3.1,OS/2 etc) and yet provides a simple an intuitive WINDOWS style interface for the user. This is the SHAREWARE version, which is limited to 4 seconds maximum move time, and not as strong as our PROFESSIONAL version, but you will need to be a good player to beat it!
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Sage 4000:Adrian Millett 100646.3501@compuserve.com PC SOLUTIONS: PO BOX 954, BOURNEMOUTH BH7 6YJ, ENGLAND