All information on this page is provided by Adrian Millet.
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!
Maintainer of this page:
Sage 4000:Adrian Millett 100646.3501@compuserve.com
PC SOLUTIONS: PO BOX 954, BOURNEMOUTH BH7 6YJ, ENGLAND