Straight from the University of Alberta comes this dramatic story of intrigue, beguile, challenge and mystery...up 'til now that is.....
Game over — scientists solve checkers
named after a famed American helicopter (Chinook), a Canadian computer has spent years - since 1989 actually - playing and re-playing checkers. 500 quintillion moves later, its finally figured out a way to play the game and win every time, or at least force a draw.
Schaeffer has been working on the checkers puzzle for 18 years.
For more information about Chinook please go to:
http:// http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook.
Jonathan Schaeffer’s U of A website:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/
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