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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.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 11:18 pm by Bayle Shanks and is filed under Artificial intelligence. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Checkers solved”

  1. ac Says:
    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?

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