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:
To get more informations on the game, you may have a look at the International Draughts Federation's Web site.
The program was named Danican in tribute to F.-A. Danican-Philidor, most famous chess and draughts player of the 18th century.
Danican has been developed on a GNU/Linux system. The user interface is based on the GTK+ toolkit.
Danican is copyright (c) 2002 Christian Obrecht. It 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. See file COPYING that comes with the Danican distribution for more details.
Danican's latest distribution is danican.0.5.2.tar.gz [ 55 KB ].
You are welcome to send your comments or bug reports.