Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IT TOOK 18 years to figure out all 500 billion billion combinations at checkers, but Canadian scientists have finally programmed a ...

Checkers is a two-player strategy game played on an 8×8 checkerboard which involve diagonal moves of circular game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. In Britain, American ...

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday. The team at the University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, ...

Checkers champions, meet your match. An invincible checkers-playing program named Chinook has solved a game whose origins date back several millennia, scientists reported Thursday on the journal ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" ...

It took more than 18 years, but computer scientists have completely solved the game of chess, with a program that can be tied but never beaten. Steve Mirsky reports. If you're enjoying this article, ...

Below will demonstrate a game between a user (black checkers) and computer (red checkers). It demonstrates double and triple captures, computer moving red checker pieces during its turn, crowning of a ...

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 a ...

If you've ever felt the need to sit down and play a game of checkers with a computer, don't bother anymore. You simply cannot win. It's not that the odds of you beating it are slim to none, it's that ...

Jonathan Schaeffer's quest for the perfect game of checkers has ended. The 50-year-old computer scientist from the University of Alberta in Edmonton left human players in the dust more than a decade ...

If players play perfectly, the game will end in a draw, say researchers. July 19, 2007 — -- Millions of checkers players worldwide can put down their pieces -- the ancient game has been solved, ...