18 years later, U of A perfects invincible checkers-playing robot
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/237777
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After 18 and a half years of work - running as many as 200 computers at a time - University of Alberta scientists have developed a program that can win or draw every single time it plays the ancient board game...
Using some bought, begged and borrowed computers - with an average of 50 running at a time - Schaeffer set out to sort through the 500 billion checkers positions and determine which led to “wins, losses and draws.”...
The program ran continuously from 2001 until April 29 of this year, when Schaeffer was able to claim that it had “solved” the game.
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This R&D went to good use, because if any Deceptacons come to Earth and challenge us to checkers, we shall not lose.
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Last edited by icarus; 07-23-2007 at 03:45 PM.
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