[Kde-games-devel] Request for Bezique Game

[Sarah Berry]

Dear KDE Game Developers,

I wish to request that the card game Bezique be included in your next release.  This game was extremely popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, folklore has it, it was Winston Churchill's favourite game.

It is quite tactical (in comparison to most other card games) with a good degreee of gameplay involved and, I imagine, it would make an interesting and challenging game for programmers to develop.

The rules are detailed at these locations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A646724

and 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezique

There is a shareware version of the game available for the Windows operating system, so if you want to see how another programmer has approached the development, you can dowload this (the shareware limitation is that you can only play ten times):

http://www.popularshareware.com/load.asp?item=5111-4&url=http://cdrom.digitalriver.com/pub/malcolm/Bezique.exe


It would be great to have this tactical card game included in KDE.  As there seems to be only the one shareware version available for WIndows, it would make an interesting point of differentiation.  Bezique today has a cult following and, being very much a thinking man's game, would appeal to many of the KDE users.

Cheers,

Sarah