KingsRow English 10-piece WLD and MTC Database Installation

Read these links:

General KingsRow Information:  http://edgilbert.org/Checkers/KingsRow.htm KingsRow 32 & 64 bit engine download:  http://edgilbert.org/EnglishCheckers/KingsRowEnglish.htm Installation instruction:  http://edgilbert.org/EnglishCheckers/10pieceEnglishInstall.htm Book 10, an auxiliary opening book:  http://edgilbert.org/EnglishCheckers/book10.htm KingsRow analysis of the Black Hole:  http://edgilbert.org/EnglishCheckers/BlackHole.htm     Martin Fierz’s CheckerBoard Home page:  http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm

System Requirements

·         Checkerboard program w/Cake & KingsRow engines and most db’s installed (64 bit) 5GB

·         Operating System for 10 piece database
Windows 7, 8, Vista, XP, 2000, 10. (Use 64 bit download if computer compatible)

• Free disk space
  • full WLD: 214GB
  • small WLD: 76GB
  • full MTC: 47GB
  • small MTC: 11GB
  • total free disk space 261GB
• RAM 
  • full WLD: 1.5GB minimum. 
  • small WLD: 1GB.
  • The MTC database uses very little RAM. There are no specific requirements for it.
• File system
  The 10-piece database must be installed on a hard drive that is formatted with the NTFS file system. This is the norm for almost all PC internal hard drives, but some external hard drives are formatted as FAT32. You can view the type of file system of your hard drive using Properties command in Windows Explorer. If the drive that you intend to use for the database is FAT32 you can use a Windows convert utility to change it to NTFS. You may do an internet search for "convert FAT32 to NTFS" and you will find some information at the Microsoft web site that explains how to do this.
• Check your versions of KingsRow and CheckerBoard against the latest versions that are available on the web, and update if your versions are not the latest. For example: Version 1.17 of KingsRow has improvements that are needed for using the 10-piece database.
• As of 12/20/2017 the newest version of KingsRow is: KingsRow (1.17)  for English Checkers
• As of 12/20/2017 the newest version of CheckerBoard is: CheckerBoard 1.73a and Cake 1.85, (32 & 64-bit) 12/20/2017 | Checkerboard 1.72 64-bit (2109 KB) with setup program for 64-bit Windows. 
• Download a huge open book for “Cake” if you use the “Cake” engine or “Kingrow” open book for “Kingrow”
• This has nothing to do with the above, but if you are interested in downloading a good checker program for you hand device (smart phone, tablet, notebook, etc.) and the OS (operating system) is Android, then you can’t do better than CT211 (Checkers Tutor 2.11) it’s not listed with Google Play but you can Google “Checkers Tutor 2.11” and get if free or pay the $.99 for the download, it’s the same program. You need a Google account. There are 3 basic OS offered for small hand devices: Google has Android, Microsoft has Windows 10, and Apple has iOS.  Apple’s ipad (their tablet) seems to do everything except have a good checker program available. Newer tablets are coming with Windows 10 operating system which means you can download a slim “checkerboard.” 

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