Help For Checkers to the Max™

Introduction

Welcome to the network Checkers to the Max™ server. The Rules of Checkers to the Max™ are below. The maxcheckers "set" command is described here. Other commands are the same for all pbmserv games.

maxcheckers set userid password [ options ]
or
maxcheckers move board userid password option

Selects optional ways of viewing the board. Available options:

    flip    : Rotate the board if you are playing Black (default)
    noflip  : White is always at the bottom.

    large   : Large board display (default)
    small   : Small board display

Rules of Checkers to the Max™

Checkers to the Max™ was invented by Stan Druben. It is played in exactly the same way as Checkers except for the following differences:

All pieces start off the board in the player's hand.
Instead of making a normal move, a player can drop one of his in-hand pieces onto the board, onto any of the spaces which his pieces would normally start on.
Capturing still takes precedence over dropping pieces.
The games ends when one player has no legal capture, move, or drop. That player loses the game.

The notation for a drop is a single coordinate of the space where the piece should be dropped. (e.g. D4)