WinDama 1.0.0-preview — First Open-Source Release
Pre-release
Pre-release
WinDama 1.0.0-preview
This is the first open-source GitHub release of WinDama, a Windows
application and AI experimentation environment for Algerian/Spanish
checkers.
Main features
- Human versus human, human versus AI, and AI versus AI modes
- Mandatory-capture rule enforcement
- Longest and maximal multi-capture selection
- Flying Dama movement
- Promotion handling
- Minimax and alpha-beta search
- Iterative deepening
- Transposition tables with Zobrist hashing
- Quiescence search
- Opening-book support
- Real-time search analysis
- Tactical benchmarking
- AI tournament support
- Evaluation tuning and dataset export
- Separate reusable rules and AI engine
- NUnit regression tests
Download and run
- Download
WinDama-v1.0.0-preview-win-x64.zip. - Extract the complete ZIP archive.
- Keep all extracted files together.
- Run
WinDama.exe.
This is a self-contained Windows x64 build. A separate .NET installation
should normally not be required.
Requirements
- Windows 10 or Windows 11
- 64-bit operating system
Preview notice
This is a preview release. Bug reports, rule-validation feedback,
documentation improvements, and contributions are welcome.
Windows may show a security warning because the executable is not currently
digitally code-signed.
License
MIT License