Jonathan Schaeffer
Jul. 20, 2007
Researchers Solve Checkers, Once And For All
Researchers report in the journal Science this week that after sorting through 500 billion billion possible moves, they've been able to create a computer program that will never lose a game of checkers.
games, checkers, math, computers
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