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Aurora Borealis Professional
version 1.98 (for DOS)
Note! New version is available!
- It's an excellent partner to spend some time playing draughts with. Program plays about on master level in Russian draughts and on an average-player level in English draughts.
- Plays Russian, English, Brazilian, Italian and Pool versions of draughts.
Here are some results of training matches played by Russian version 0.99 - blitz, 3 min (program wins):
- Kolesov Gavril, mgr .......... +1-1=2
- Kontoev Stanislav, m......... +1-0=3
- Burnashev Alexey, m......... +2-0=2
- Timofeev Afanasy, m......... +3-0=0
In blitz-tournament of traditional Republic Draughts Festival program has taken 6th place (+3-0=6).
In Republic blitz Draughts Championship result was +4-1=6.
In republic rating-list in 2002 year program was on the 20th place.
- It was the first Russian draught database program and one of the largest and powerful ones by now.
Program has powerful tools, such as:
- useful search (by names, tournaments, positions, patterns...), ;
- variation tree (immediately shows statistics of current position so you don’t need to search thru all database);
- copy, sort and organize databases now as easy as you cannot even imagine;
- support of import and export PDN databases allows users to import/export their databases from/to other programs;
- export to RTF is the easiest and comfortable way to get games ready for publication purposes, look at an example;
Main program's possibilities:
- Playing 5 versions of draughts (Russian, Brazilian, Pool, English and Italian) with any time control: from 3 up to 60 minutes per game
- Large opening books
- 5-pieces endgame database (Russian draughts)
- 52 000 - games database (Russian draughts)
- 18 000 - games database (English draughts)
- Modernized "anti-human" playing style
- Self-teaching
- Interactive game analysis
- Powerful database tools
Program requirements:
- Processor: 286 or higher (Pentium recommended)
- Operating system: DOS 5.x, Windows 3.x, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, any other with full DOS 5.x support.
Warning: there might be a problem running Aurora Borealis on Windows XP (application "freezes"). Look at a probably solution of this problem.
- Mouse
- CD-ROM (for installation from CD)
- About 600 Mb on HDD for full installation of Russian draughts version databases
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