Checkers is solved

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"The Chinook project began in 1989 with the goal of developing a program capable of defeating the human World Checkers Champion. In 1990, Chinook became the first program in any game to win the right to play for a human World Championship. The program lost the Championship match in 1992, but became Champion in 1994. By 1996, it became clear that the program was much stronger than any human, and Chinook was retired.
Checkers has a search space of 5x1020, a daunting number. Almost continuously since 1989 (with a gap in the 1997 to 2001 period), dozens of computers have been working around the clock to solve the game. On May 8, 2007, we were pleased to announce that checkers is now solved. From the standard starting position, Black (who moves first) is guaranteed a draw with perfect play. White (moving second) is also guaranteed a draw, regardless of what Black plays as the opening move. Checkers is the largest game that has been solved to date, more than one million times larger than Connect Four and 100 million times larger than Awari."


http://www.ualberta.ca/~kulchits/project/

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Thank God.

[ESKiMO-SiCKNE5S]

this is fantastic news!

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this is fantastic news!

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Cool, now they can work on POKER.

[Our House]

Now I can finally hang up my checker board and move back to poker until the bots take that over too.

EDIT: booo...late.

[Neil S]

I love this sort of thing when it happens. Especially to a game I never really liked, checkers, heh.

[ESKiMO-SiCKNE5S]

I has a question.

What was the computer doing between 1997 til 2001?

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What was the computer doing between 1997 til 2001?

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downloading pr0n

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What was the computer doing between 1997 til 2001?

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Playing Global Thermo Nuclear War, or Tic Tac Toe, one or the other

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What was the computer doing between 1997 til 2001?

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Solitaire