Questions tagged [checkers-draughts]
A group of strategy board games in which two players perform diagonal moves to capture their opponent's pieces.
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Find coordinates of neighbors out of given coordinates
I'm programming a checkers game in typescript.
I'd like to explain some important details to understand how the following code works.
In my game coordinates are a string, like "b4".
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Simple Python3 Checkers
I'm a beginning "pythonist" my current task is to write a checkers game and I need some suggestions here and there:
are the code style and literacy answering the criteria of python?
are the modules ...
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Draw checker board
For an assignment, I had to draw a checkers board, with blue and red checkers, in python. What I have works, but I'm wondering if there's a more elegant and/or efficient way to accomplish this feat? ...
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Validating user input for the game of draughts/checkers
I'm trying to script a C# game of Draughts/Checkers. I'm at the point of taking user input and validating it. I first check the input of current x and y coords to see they are numbers, then check the ...
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Playing Checkers
Continuing with my web-based checkers game, this question is about the actual playing system. I'll ask for a review on my UI system in the next post.
First, my BoardController.cs. Note that I have ...
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Checkers Board Creator
A year or so ago, I wrote a checkers game for the Universal Windows Platform. Now, I wrote a web-based version of it hosted at http://checkerstreasury.azurewebsites.net. This is the first of a series ...
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JavaFX Checkers game
I started self teaching myself Java a few months ago. I recently came to the point where I felt it was time to blackout myself from any help or guiding material other than Oracle's docs, so I made a 2 ...
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Checkers Board Editor
I created a board editor for my Checkers game. This allows the user to create any board position and copy the FEN string representing that board, which can then be used to create a game from that ...
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Pool Checkers with AI
I recently added Pool Checkers to my Checkers game. My main concerns are about how I manage calling the correct variant in my PublicAPI functions. Because this is ...
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American Checkers with AI
This is the third question in the series. Number 1 had most of the official two-player rules implemented, and Number 2 was the basic UI. This one has the complete two-player rules implemented, an AI ...
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English Draughts
The basic UI for my checkers app is complete, so the next step is to come here for review. I have not built my Facade over my F# game library, so some of the type usages are a little strange; this ...
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American Checkers
I am implementing the logic for a Checkers game in F#. I am writing my code in a library so it can be called from any UI provider, and am trying to do it in good FP style. I currently have the ...
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Python Checkers
This is a program I made to practice using turtle graphics. I am looking for pointers specifically on how I handle the game board. Currently it holds all of the grid objects in a nested list. Sorry if ...
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Checkers moves using union types
How do I refactor common code with different union types?
I'm still struggling with refactoring F# code with different types but same behavior.
I have the following function that I would like to ...
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3-axis coordinate system for a Chinese Checkers board
About a year ago, my brother and I came up with this cool idea for how to solve the problem of determining if any given "cell" on a Chinese Checkers board was adjacent to the cell in question.
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Creating and displaying a checkers board
I am learning clojure this week end and just starting to develop a simple checkers engine. I currently coded some basic functions to create the board and display it. I would love to get some feedback !...
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English Checkers game
I've written this English checkers game. Meanwhile, it's a human vs. human game, although it is easily extensible to a game between other players (such as a computer one).
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Efficiency of Recursive Checkers Legal Move Generator
I'm implementing a checkers engine for a scientific experiment. I found out through profiling that this is one of the functions that takes up a lot of time. I'm not looking for an in-depth analysis, ...
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