Intelligent Artifice

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Checkers has been ’solved’ July 20, 2007

Filed under: Game Design, Programming — Jurie @ 9:34

New Scientist reports that Checkers has been solved and joins the ranks of Tic Tac Toe and, apparently, Connect 4. Computer games expert (in a different sense than usual within the context of this blog) and spoilsport Jonathan Schaeffer worked on the problem for 18 years!

(Via BoingBoing.)

 

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