Fanorona is written in Java. Its UI Component is an Applet and mostly uses AWT;
- A StackLayout is a LayoutManager that arranges components in a vertical (or horizontal)
- A 64 BitSet allowing Data Representation and Manipulation of the board.
- A Tree Game Search using the Alpha-Beta Pruning search implementing: 
    * a mini-max evaluation
    * a Transposition Table
    * an Aspiration Search
    * an Internal Iterative Deepening [IID]
    * an alpha-beta enhancement called Principal Variation
    * a - Memory Test Driver reducing the calculation time. MTD(f)    

 Strategy and board game programming  - David Eppstein's Courses at UCI - Lecture notes April 22, 1997
 Alpha-Beta Search  - David Eppstein's Courses at UCI

 Recherche arborescente (In French) Bruno Bouzy - Universite Rene Descartes
, 16 Novembre 2005

An Excell Spreadsheet trying to explain the bit manipulation used in the game. 
Fanorona Bits Explanation.xls

- UI and Search Engine Separation

   Do not forget to setup your ~/.m2/settings.xml file
      <server>
          <id>shell.sourceforge.net</id>
          <username>USER,gasy-fanorona</username>
          <password>PASSWD</password>
      </server>