Pracitcal steps of Abalone-Programming

1.1 Interface
1.1.1. board
1.1.2. balls
1.2.3. mouse-interaction

1.2 Programme
1.2.1. implementation of the rules
1.2.2. evaluation-function
1.2.3. move-searching (Min-Max-algorithm)
1.2.4. optimisation: Alpha-Beta-algorithm

if you have any knowledge or questions to these points, then please write a message in this sujet. Thank you.

I have some working C++ code using wxWidgets that provides a board and mouse input. Send me a note if you want to try it out.

nacre said also:

writing an Abalone program is time-consuming. However, you can download full source for Abalot / El-Boana / PeterTaxAbalone, three good implementations. The first has a high-speed search/evaluation, the second an early forward pruning scheme, and the third is beautifully coded -- a good place to add your own experiments.

If you want to play around with these programs, write a message on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abalone_prog/ and I will gladly help you getting started. (I have modified all 3 programs to use the abnet net-protocol)