Checkers has been solved! It's really an amazing feat, though it was done by calculating every possible position and creating a database for it. Was it easy? Well, if you consider having several computers do nothing but this task for 13 years easy, then yeah! The article makes a chess comparison which I, of course, find very intriguing. If a computer could solve checkers in 1 nanosecond, that computer would take 3000 years to solve chess! Wow!
Oh yes, and the result... with perfect play checkers is a draw! Here's the complete article:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3997
Happy Friday!
Ed.
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