July 19, 2007 — -- Millions of checkers players worldwide can put down their pieces -- the ancient game has been solved, according to researchers. Chinook, a computer program developed by ...

The first checkers-playing computer was created in 1963 by the artificial intelligence pioneer Arthur Samuel; the computer managed to win a single game against a human.

Today's Game of the Day is good ol' Checkers. You know the rules: you can only move diagonally and you can't move backwards. If you're in position to jump over an opponent's piece, you have to do it.

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For an exercise in futility, play checkers against a computer program named Chinook. Developed by computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada, Chinook vanquished human competitors ...

WASHINGTON – Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in ...

With uniform pieces and diagonal moves, checkers is simple enough for a child to learn. But to achieve absolute mastery of the game, scientists needed to run hundreds of computers for nearly 20 ...

It does not matter how the players make it to 10 checkers left because from that point on, the computer cannot lose, Schaeffer said. For two players who never make a mistake, every game would be a ...

Schaeffer, a true game lover—his two dogs are named Scrabble and Rummicub—intends to pit his poker program against two top players next week in a 500-hand match designed to minimize the role ...

Alright, here goes: I want to code a game, and I've decided on Checkers. I don't need any fancy GUI or anything (yet), all I want is suggestions on how you, the reader, would go about this.<BR><BR ...