KingsRow Italian is a program that plays Italian checkers. It is used with Martin Fierz's user interface program called CheckerBoard. Both KingsRow and CheckerBoard are free programs. KingsRow Italian has an opening book database of 725,000 positions. It covers all 174 of the 3-move openings, including 8 which this book shows are probably losses. The book was built by doing systematic searches with KingsRow and the 10-piece database. This technique is called dropout expansion that was developed by Thomas Linke. Martin Fierz has written an overview of how dropout expansion works.
