Welcome!

[Brandon Corfman]

This group is for discussion of the open-source game called Raven
Checkers.

The main web site for Raven can be found here:
https://code.google.com/p/raven-checkers/

Raven is a checkers game program, for one or two players. While there
are
examples of excellent & free checkers programs out on the net (such as
Martin
Fierz's Checkerboard), Raven has a few differences.

* Open-source code. Raven uses existing open source code as a basis
(Martin
Fierz's Simple Checkers evaluation function and Peter Norvig's search
code from
the AIMA project) for its AI engine.

* Cross-platform. Raven is written using Python 2.6 using its standard
libraries. It has been tested on Windows and Linux Mint (Cassandra).

* Great for checkers study. Raven allows you to quickly set up board
configurations using standard checkerboard notation. This is good for
working
through checkers books and learning techniques and tactics.

If you have any questions or feature requests about the game, they can
be posted
here, and I will read and reply.

I've been working hard on the 0.4 release which should be available
this month.
I will post here when it becomes available. I'm going to try to build
packages
for both Windows and Linux. (The 0.3.1 installer was Windows only,
although the
source code could be run on Linux.)

Best regards,
Brandon