A Canadian computer named Chinook has been analyzing the game of checkers since 1989, and has gone through every single one of the 500 quintillion (no, I'm not making that word up) possible ...

With uniform pieces and diagonal moves, checkers is simple enough for a child to learn. But to achieve absolute mastery of the game, scientists needed to run hundreds of computers for nearly 20 ...

After 13 years of brute-force computer analysis examining all 500 billion billion possible board positions, researchers announced Thursday that they had solved the centuries-old game of checkers.

For an exercise in futility, play checkers against a computer program named Chinook. Developed by computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada, Chinook vanquished human competitors ...

That does not mean an end to people playing checkers, said Hall, who was not part of Schaeffer's research team. Even though a computer beat the world chess champion, people still enjoy and play ...

WASHINGTON – Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in ...

August 8, 2007 After 18 years of work, Jonathan Schaeffer from the University of Alberta , has announced the completion of Chinook , a checkers playing progra ...

It does not matter how the players make it to 10 checkers left because from that point on, the computer cannot lose, Schaeffer said. For two players who never make a mistake, every game would be a ...

In 1962 Arthur Samuel shocked the world. He built a computer that could challenge then- reigning checkers champion, Robert Nealy. The machine won, but it wasn't the triumph alone that grabbed ...