Jul 19

The unbeatable checker-playing computer

Computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved the ancient game of checkers:

After 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 billion billion (a five followed by 20 zeroes) checkers positions, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer and colleagues have built a checkers-playing computer program that cannot be beaten. Completed in late April this year, the program, Chinook, may be played to a draw but will never be defeated.

Edward Willett

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