KAbalone

The KDE version of Abalone

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What is "Abalone"?

Abalone is a simple board strategy game. It's played by two players. There are red and yellow types of pieces for the different players. Beginning from a start position where each player has 14 pieces, moves are drawn till one player has pushed 6 pieces of his opponent out of the board.

The Rules for Abalone

1. Red always moves first.

2. Two types of moves are allowed:

If you still don't know what's all about, look at a game where the computer plays both sides. After executing KAbalone, select Options/Computer plays/Both and start a new game.

Interface of the program

Drawing moves should be obvious (see remarks in Rules above). The buttons in the toolbar have the same meaning as entries in the Files menu.

The Files menu:

The Options menu:

The rest should be obvious.


About KAbalone

"kabalone" is part of the KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) project. It was written in September 1997 by Josef Weidendorfer. Don't hesitate to contact me if you find bugs or if you have questions/suggestions on the implementation (... my homepage). The program is published under the GNU GPL.

The original program was developed in 1993 for DOS and pure Xlib. For KDE there was a major rewrite.

Notice: The game idea is not by me. It's a real board game vendored by a German game producing firm (I think).


Josef Weidendorfer, 9/97