Software Board-Games - Checkers v0.92
Assault Trooper
Genre: Board Game
Production: by Martin Fierz
Publication date: 1997
Description:
"The players take turns in making their move, with black playing first.
In the beginning of the game, each player has 12 stones, which can move diagonally forward.
A capture is possible, if there is an enemy stone in diagonally before a stone and the field behind the enemy stone is empty.
In a similar way, multiple captures are possible.
If you are able to capture a stone, you must do so.
Once a stone reaches the other side of the board, it promotes to a king.
Kings can move and capture forward and backward.The game is over when one of the players cannot move anymore.
In that case, he loses the game.
The game belongs to the two-person full information class of board games (other examples include tic-tac-toe, connect four and chess), which means that, assuming both players will play perfectly, the outcome of the game is already decided.
In the case of checkers, the outcome of the game has not yet been calculated, due to the enormous amount of possible moves.
Efforts to solve the game are under way however, the computer program chinook already being stronger than all human players.
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