2005-12-13 Artur Wiebe 
	* New homepage at kcheckers.wibix.de/.

2005-11-29 Artur Wiebe 
	* Port completed. Started bug fixing.

2005-11-15 Artur Wiebe 
	* Started porting to Qt 4.0.

2005-06-28 Artur Wiebe 
	* Fixed my email address on the homepage.

2005-04-11 Artur Wiebe 
	* KCheckers 0.6 released.
	* New game mode: Human vs. Human.
	* Added Info widget next to game's board.
	* Added different board sizes.
	* Rewrote menubar and toolbar code.
	* Rewrote network code.
	* Fixed some bugs, introduced new.

2004-08-18 Artur Wiebe 
	* New homepage at kcheckers.org.

2004-08-08 Artur Wiebe 
	* KCheckers 0.5 released.
	* Machine thinks in a thread now.
	* Added Internationalization support in main.cpp and project file.
	* Added Network capabilities.
	* Altered GUI interface to match KDE specifications.
	* Extended Preview in File Open Dialog.
	* Various improvements.

2004-08-01 Andi
	* New maintainer Artur Wiebe joined to the project.

Old news can be found on archive.html page.

• Pure Qt.
• Built-in checkers engine.
• English and Russian rules of play.
• Beginner, Novice, Average, Good, Expert and Master levels of skill.
• Green, Marble and Wooden themes of the board.
• Portable Draughts Notation database format support.
• PDN preview widget.
• Saving, loading and restarting of game.
• Auto change of the men's color.
• Undo of last move.
• Auto saving of settings.
• Optional numeration of the board.
• Game information box.
• The on-line description of the play's rules.
• Threads support.
• Internationalization support (now German and Russian).
• Network capabilities.

For its compilation KCheckers requires the threaded version of Qt library.

• KCheckers 0.6: kcheckers-0.6.tar.gz kcheckers-0.6.sig
• KCheckers 0.5: kcheckers-0.5.tar.gz
• KCheckers 0.4: kcheckers-0.4.tar.gz
• KCheckers 0.3: kcheckers-0.3.tar.gz

Artur's GPG public key: gpg-key

• Animation of movement.

Rules of play:

• In the beginning of game you have 12 checkers (men).
• The men move forward only. The men can capture:
  • by jumping forward only (english rules);
  • by jumping forward or backward (russian rules).
• A man which reaches the far side of the board becomes a king.
• The kings move forward or backward:
  • to one square only (english rules);
  • to any number of squares (russian rules).
• The kings capture by jumping forward or backward.
• Whenever a player is able to make a capture he must do so.

• Andi Peredri - original author, artist, designer, russian translation.
• Artur Wiebe - current maintainer and developer, german translation.

• Portable Draughts Notation database format.
• Xcheckers boardgame.