Cake (draughts player)

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Cake or Cake++ is a English draughts (often called American checkers or simply checkers) engine by Martin Fierz. This engine works with CheckerBoard, another one of Fierz's creations. The latest version of cake is Cake Manchester. It uses the MTD(f) algorithm and can use up to 8-piece endgame databases. In November 2004, it competed with another engine, KingsRow, and Cake Manchester won 3 and lost 1 game.

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The origin of the name Sans Souci in Cake Sans Souci comes from is an apartment building at the Diamond Head end of Waikiki where Fierz was attending graduate school at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
The origin of the name Manchester in Cake Manchester comes from the World Computer Checkers Tournament which should have taken in the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology during August 2004 in Manchester, England (hosted by the Eighth Mind Sports Olympiad). However, the tournament didn't happen.