Welcome to Ascal a Gnome Version of the board game Lasca (or Laska).

Ascal is free software. Please see the file COPYING for details.
For documentation, please see the files in the doc subdirectory.
For building and installation instructions please see the INSTALL file.

Lasca is a game similar to Draughts but with some really cool enhancements.
You'll find a great description in the help system of Ascal. In the meantime
the article on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasca
and
http://research.interface.co.uk/lasca/about.htm

will help you understanding the rules. Ascal tries to give a great Gnome Version
of Lasca for one and two players. You can undo moves, save and load games and
all that on a nifty graphical board.

Ascal was programmed by 3 students for an ai-contest in the university course of
C++ programming in summer 2006 at University of Goettingen, Germany. Their ai
made the 4th place in a round of 9. At this time the backtracking was not
functional... :)

If you still feel the need to try Ascal you'll first have to check for
the standard Gnome libraries and their c++ bindings
gtkmm and gnomecanvasmm.

One day there hopefully will be Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and RedHat packages as 
well as a Gentoo port.

Now the usual ./configure && make && su -c "make install" will build and install 
Ascal. You can start it after that with "ascal" on a xterm or with the starter from the menu.

