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- From: ahanysz@spam.ua.oz (Alexander Hanysz)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.abstract
- Subject: Checkers (was Re: World Othello Championships).
- Summary: It's not been solved.
- Keywords: Checkers
- Message-ID: <1840@spam.ua.oz>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 04:20:27 GMT
- References: <1drujjINNq7h@gap.caltech.edu> <TOMF.92Nov12103920@ai.gte.com> <1e2rkeINNeqn@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide
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- In article <1e2rkeINNeqn@gap.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
- >Speaking of checkers, I heard (recently) that quite a number of the positions
- >had been solved and that someone (somewhere) was getting pretty close
- >to the end. Hmm... is checkers a finite game? Anyone know anything
- >about any of the preliminary results? Have there been any good articles
- >written on computer Othello or checkers recently?
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- Checkers has not been solved. Earlier this year there was a match
- between a computer program and the (human) world champion. The human
- won fairly convincingly.
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- Alex.
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