QUARTERS - Quarters Board Game
Version 4.0
Copyright (C) 2004, Gregory E. Bailey
All Rights Reserved.
This program is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL). See the file "LICENSE" for details.
Quarters is a strategy game for two players. Although its rules are relatively simple, it still offers some of the same opportunities for skill as in chess.
This program was originally conceived in the summer of 1986 while I was studying the mini-max algorithm for chess playing computers. I needed a game that offered the some of the same type of strategies, and "Quarters" is the result.
The game was originally written in BASIC, then ported to Turbo Pascal, then to C, and finally to Java. The Java version is not necessarily object oriented--it is a crude port from the C version.
A playing board can be printed using the "board.ps" PostScript file in the docs/ directory.
Historical Basic, Pascal, and C versions are stored in the historical/ directory.