Checkers solved
The game of checkers has been solved.
pop sci article in Nature news
the website of Chinook, an unbeatable checkers program
Interestingly, one of the writers of Chinook is working on poker, according to a nytimes article about the solution of checkers. His team’s program is playing in the AAAI Man vs. Machine Poker Challenge at AAAI-07. Here’s the link to the University of Alberta
Computer Poker Research Group.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
well that only took 18 years!
we seem to cover similar stuff on our blogs http://bayblab.blogspot.com/2007/07/checkers-decontstructed.html
perhaps we could exchange links?