8 Das von der Isar Interactive GmbH und Co. KG herausgegebene Skat für Windows 10 ist ein netter Zeitvertreib zwischendurch und bietet zudem die Möglichkeit, das Skatspiel ohne Druck von Grund auf zu erlernen. Denn es wird ausschließlich gegen Computergegner gespielt. Skat für Windows 10 bringt dabei einiges an Funktionsumfang mit: So sind Deutsches-, Französisches und Turnier-Blatt enthalten und bei den Regeln kann zwischen Kontra, Re, Bockrunde und Ramsch gewählt werden. Zusätzlich gibt es flexible Sortierfunktionen für die Karten. Das Programm dürfte aber besonders für Einsteiger interessant sein.
Denn für all jene, denen Skat nicht viel sagt, bietet das Spiel eine Fülle an Lernmöglichkeiten an. So kann zum Beispiel eingestellt werden, dass Vorschläge gemacht werden, welche Karte als Nächstes gespielt werden sollte oder, dass der letzte Stich angezeigt werden soll. Nützlich ist auch die Funktion, den letzten Zug jederzeit noch einmal zurücknehmen zu können, wenn sich doch einmal ein grober Schnitzer eingeschlichen haben sollte. Zur endgültigen Spielhilfe kann sogar das Blatt der Gegner offengelegt werden. Um Schlussfolgerungen ziehen zu können, kann das letzte Spiel wiederholt werden und zu jedem Spiel gibt es einen detaillierten Spielverlauf mit detaillierter Listenführung mit Abrechnung nach DSkV. Darüber hinaus gibt es Statistiken zu den letzten 2000 gespielten Spielen.
Die Darstellung von Skat für Windows 10 ist für ein Kartenspiel vertretbar. Einzig die Schrift auf den Schaltflächen ist viel zu klein und die Karten liegen teilweise zu eng an, wodurch sie schwerer zu lesen sind.
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In this study, I look at a wide variety of Skat programs and applications for PC/Windows, Linux, and Android. Most if not all of these can still be obtained with a little Internet searching. There is a surprisingly large number of computer Skat programs out there, and there’s no way to obtain or evaluate them all. Some of them I simply couldn’t get my hands on (such as those that are only available in the German market).
Our programs, Rasche's Skat 6.0 and Rasche's Skat 5.0 placed 1st and 2nd respectively in the first International Skat Software Championship held in September 2004.
Others simply cost more than I wanted to spend for evaluation purposes (Skat 3000 being a notably egregious example). The graphics are good enough. You can select from a small number of background images.
In all but one of them you play against two mice, which is rather bizarre, but you can replace the images of the mice with anything of your own choosing if you have enough patience to work with the built-in editor. There is a typical selection of card types, allowing play with French, German, or Tournament decks. Sound is more than adequate, and the amount of sound is selectable.
Kartenspiele (Skat, Doppelkopf, Schafkopf, Sheepshead, Bridge.) fuer den Macintosh und Windows. There are many of these and I won't get into commercial recommendations. I'll just list the ones I use. On Android I play against Skat HD which costs a few dollars and plays a reasonable game. On the PC I play against Rasche's Skat 8, which is plays a pretty strong game but is on the more expensive side. Feb 07, 2015 Download tms flexcel studio for.net(microsoft visual studio.net 2005) v.5.7.6 crack updated by vernosuppfqual1988. Kartenspiele (Skat, Doppelkopf, Schafkopf, Sheepshead) fuer den Macintosh und Windows.
You can have the mice make various comments like “Schneider sind auch Leute.” When you are the Alleinspieler and you lose, they are happy to make snide remarks. Shuffling and card play sounds are sharp and realistic. Playing strength and style can be set separately for each computer player. Strength is weak, average, or strong; aggressiveness is cautious, normal, or aggressive. Skat 9.5 plays a pretty reasonable game, with the occasional incredibly boneheaded error, bad enough that I can even catch it. Even on the “average” aggressiveness setting, bidding is quite forthright and if you’re the least bit of a Maurer you won’t be getting many bids. Certainly the program plays at a decent club level.
I’d have to say it falls short of expert level, but it makes for a nice computer opponent, one against which an average player has half a chance. The play style seems more “human” than in some other programs. Graphics are okay, if no more than that. It comes with a few cardsets, but the traditional ASS sets (like Altenburger ASS) costs a small additional fee, supposedly for licensing (though some other programs include these without extra cost). Sound is a little choppy but it’s adequate. There is bidding, card shuffling and play sounds, and so on, and a few remarks from the players here and there (like “alter Maurer” when you don’t bid in eingepasste Spiele). There are some very annoying sounds for start-up and won and lost games.
Some but not all can be turned off. This one has a feature found almost nowhere else.
In addition to normal play at a table, you can play in “story” mode where you had better win money because you have to pay to eat and drink every so often. This may sound like it’s lots of fun but it’s not. Every time I try it I get annoyed very quickly and switch back to regular mode. Make your own decision, but I’ll bet you’ll agree. There are plenty of Kneipenskat rules and various scoring methods. There are also options for tournament and league play, neither of which seemed to quite work right when I tried them.
You can also choose among all sorts of opponents, graded by skill and aggressiveness. I find it’s best to play against the “profi” set at “normal” aggressiveness, but if you want an easier game, you can go right down the line to beginners. The evaluation version has some delays and annoyances, but it’s good enough to give a sense of how the program plays. This is the one I play against the most often. It combines relatively strong play with a more or less natural playing style.
There are many options and the interface is adequate if not spectacular. What may hold you back is price. You’ll spend quite a bit of money to buy the full Premium version (and maybe the Altenburger card set, which is a separately priced add-on). But it’s still my overall first choice. Siefried has very few features. Almost nothing important can be changed except the size of the cards, the names of the players, and the number of hands in a List. There are no saved games; the program starts a new List every time you run it, so you have to finish a List in one sitting.
The program provides no means to print out the scorecard, so you’re reduced to taking screenshots, but the scorecard window size is fixed and won’t display more than 9 deals at a time, so you’d have to scroll up and down and take multiple screen shots. No long-term statistics are kept. I don’t know if an English version is available; the website is completely in German and doesn’t mention one. There are no rules variants.
There is no option to replay a hand. Actually, there isn’t much at all. This is where things get really interesting.
Siegfried is wickedly strong at card play, and especially wicked as a defender. This means that a few things happen. First, the cardplay is not necessarily natural and certainly not based overall on traditional Skat principles and maxims.
Siegfried does concrete analysis and calculates outcomes. This (as is the case with many of the better chess and checker programs) means that certain card plays won’t look natural and in fact may seem bizarre (some 10 leads really caught me by surprise, for instance). But the play is optimal rather than natural. Now, let’s digress for a moment into bidding. Siegfried won’t bid on a contract it doesn’t have a very good chance to win; it’s practically a Maurer, and the number of passed-out deals is staggeringly higher than in human play (typically, an unbelievable 6 to 12 in a List of 36 hands). Put these things together: very conservative bidding and very strong card play, particularly on defense, and what have you got? A most unnaturally conservative overall List, that’s what.
Will you, as a human, go out on a limb with a bid against a merciless defensive machine? Numerous contracts like those I’ve won on-line against humans, or against Skat 9 or even Rasche 8 have proven to be sheer death against Siegfried. But Siegfried doesn’t go out on a limb either.
So what happens? Lots of passed out hands, and a List of maurering from start to finish. It’s great to play against a really strong opponent. And Siegfried is terrific at calculating the odds. But I wonder how it would do against an aggressive top-level human player? I’d love to see Siegfried play a List or two against Ron Link, for instance.
I wanted Siegfried to use as a learning tool. But what you learn isn’t what you need to play against typical human experts (or even club-level players). With Siegfried you’ll learn to just about wait for Omablatt before bidding. That isn’t natural and won’t go over well in human company. The evaluation version doesn’t allow you to bid above 20.
This cripples the program so much that the evaluation version is next to useless. Furthermore, since bidding is the oddest thing about Siegfried, you won’t get wind of that from the evaluation version. The full version is expensive at 32E, though not nearly as expensive as Rasche’s Skat (or Skat 3000, which I didn’t evaluate). But what do you get for that money? You get a program that is strong in cardplay, bids in a seemingly very conservative manner, makes you keenly aware that you’re playing against a computer and not a human expert, and offers almost no playing conveniences or options.
This is quite obviously one of the older programs in Heinlein’s series, and playing strength isn’t all that great. I offer as evidence that I usually do pretty well against this program, while I do very much less well against Skat 9.5, get run over by Rasche 8, and haven’t a prayer against Siegfried or the Muppets.
There is a “learning” option in Skat 4 but I haven’t quite figured out how to use it. I just play with the default logic supplied with the program. Computer bidding seems to fall in the risky category; the computer loses more times as Alleinspieler than I would expect.
Card play isn’t bad although defensive play seems not especially strong. I’ve been able to win as Alleinspieler a number of times when I really should have lost. You’ve got to learn to deal with the interface, which takes some time (I haven’t really ever grown completely comfortable with it). But if you want the best possible computer play, this is it.
Unless you’re well into the expert level, the Muppets will kick your butt and eat your lunch. They are aggressive bidders and skilled card players. Even worse, the one Muppet, theCount, watches how you bid and learns how to best bid against you. There are a few human players on ISS who have garnered higher ratings than the Muppets.
I suspect these are all top-level players, true “profis” though I don’t know for sure. Ron Link, are you one of them?