So what is in fact current version of 'Aurora Borealis'? - 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. 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 donlt 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, see an example;Main program's possibilities: Playing with any time control: from 3 to 60 minutes per game Large opening book 5-pieces endgame database (Russian draughts) 30 000 - games database (Russian draughts), 20 000 - 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 Mouse CD-ROM (for installation if on CD) About 430 Mb on HDD for full installation of Russian version
