How Play

General Information

• There are 2 players: Player A or Player B. Each player can be Man or Computer. User can change player's type (Man or Computer) using radio buttons.
• There is an Adviser. The adviser can help you to do next move.
• If player is computer than player can have different levels. User can change levels using combo boxes.
• The Computer can think long time. To solve this problem user can enter Maximum move's time. If maximum time of move is equal 0 computer can think without any limitation on time.
• After finding solution computer check move's time with minimum time of move. If move’s time less then minimum time computer tries to find solution at next level.
• The application shows history of the game, using selected notation.
• To work directly with board (this can be very useful solving some puzle) you can use set up position mode.
• To communicate with the applications user can use:
  • Menu
  • Toolbar
  • or popup menu, clicking on the right button of the mouse

Standalone version

• If you use standalone version of the application you can:
  • save games in and load from text files. (Click here to see description of files with games)
  • save games in and load from the MS ACCESS and Oracle database.
• The standalone version automatically save all your's settings.

Customizing

• Type of board
• Type of stones
• Colors
• Notation
• Showing or hiding
  • Buttons
  • History
  • Status bar
  • Toolbar
• Turn on (off) sounds.
• Search algorithm
  • You can turn off/on using of transposition tables.
  • You can turn off/on using of active positions.
  • You can change numbers for active positions.
  • You can use MinMax or AlphaBeta method of searching
    • If you are not a game developper never use the MinMax algorithm
  • You can set max number of moves per level