
                             DANICAN version 0.5.2

                      Copyright (C) 2002 Christian Obrecht

			     <obrecht@altern.org>


The X-Window program Danican lets you play international draughts. This game is
slightly different from the one known as draughts in UK and checkers in US.
Mainly:

    * Board is 10x10 instead of 8x8.
    * A man may capture backwards.
    * Majority capture precedes.
    * A king is a long-range piece.

See file `rules.txt' for comprehensive rules. You may also have a look at the
International Draughts Federation's Web site:

    <http://www.fmjd.nl>

This software was named Danican in tribute to F.-A. Danican-Philidor, most
famous chess and draughts player of the 18th century.

1. LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

See file `COPYING' for more details.

2. INSTALL

Danican has been developed on a GNU/Linux system. The user interface is based
on the GTK+ toolkit. As usual, type `make' and `make install'. Default
installation prefix is `/usr/local/'.

3. CREDITS

The file `base.pdn' is an opening database. It is mainly based on the file
`textbook.pdn' which comes with the archive `DragonDraughts-0.2.zip'.
DragonDraughts is copyright (C) 1996 Michel Grimminck.

4. TODO

Support full PDN (Portable Draughts Notation) file format.

5. CONTACT

The canonical home page for Danican is

                 <http://www.perso-wanadoo.fr/obrecht/danican>.

Please send bug reports and comments to <obrecht@altern.org>.
