Schafkopf Champion

Strong playing Bavarian Schafkopf, the original of Sheepshead.

Schafkopf is part of the Bavarian joy of living. Schafkopf Champion plays quite strong. The manual player plays with three computer simulated players. The App is very fast, the response times of the computer are normally not noticeable. For each player you can define the risk behavior. Options are from hesitant to quite risky. By this the app is adaptable to the skills of the manual player. Hesitant risk behavior fits to beginners, whereas aggressive is suitable for strong, experienced players. In some cases the app is using random choices. This makes its behavior not predictable.

Supported games are ace play, color wenz, wenz, and solo. Color wenz and wenz are optional, Additional options are doubling after getting our cards and challenges (German: Stoss and retour) The app knows and uses the traditional Schafkopf conventions e.g. playing a high trump if the player has the called ace.

The starter edition of the app includes advertisements and has functional restrictions. You can upgrade to the starter edition without advertisements or to the premium edition. The premium edition is free of advertisements, has all options including a training mode in which the player sees the computer proposal for the game or cards to choose. This helps beginners to improve their playing skills quickly.

For an English description of the Schafkopf rules see http://www.schafkopfschule.de/index.ph/regeln.html