Now you can buy "Agafonov's Draughts Club" on floppy disks or CD.

14 Jan. 1999.
Generation of 5-pieces russian draughts endgame database is completed. Time of generation -- 4 days. Size of database -- 193320961 byte.

6 Jan. 1999.
Russian draughts program take 2-3 places in Christmas open official blitz tournament (3 min/game).
35 players (1 grandmaster, 3 masters).
9 games: +5 =3 -1.

29 Dec. 1998.
Vladimir and Larisa Agafonovs has celebrated 35 years of matrimony.

Russian draughts program take second place in third New Year open official blitz tournament (3 min/game).
38 players, 9 rounds.
9 games: +5 =4 -0.

Generation of 5-piece endgame is restarted after power shutdown.

26 Dec. 1998.
Russian draughts program won second New Year official blitz tournament (3 min/game).
12 games: +7 =5 -0. Program defeated 3 masters of sport.

Started generation of 5-piece endgame for russian draughts.

25 Dec. 1998.
Vladimir Agafonov wons big draughts tournament "Moscow Stars".

24 Dec. 1998.
Russian draughts program take second place in open official blitz tournament (3 min/game).
25 players, 9 rounds (5 masters of sport, 4 candidates to master).
Program lose one game.

From Sep. to Dec. 24, 1998, Russian draughts program has not lost any game with masters and grandmasters in official tournaments of Russian Draughts Federation.

19 Dec. 1998.
This page is opened.

8 Dec. 1998.
The endgame database for Russian draughts (4 pieces and less) was generated and connected to "Agafonov's Draughts Club".
Time of generation: 8 hours on Pentium / 133 MHz / 16 Mb RAM.
Size of base: 9 394 602 bytes (4 pieces) +
634 882 bytes (3 pieces) +
15 874 bytes (2 pieces).