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It’s checkmate for checkers. The 5,000 year old game has been completely , and a checkers-playing computer called Chinook cannot be beaten. That’s according to University of Alberta computer scientists publishing in the latest of the journal Science. The researchers spent almost two decades going through the 500 billion billion possible checkers positions, which is still an infinitesimally small of the number of chess positions, by the way. The checkers included top players, who helped the research team program checkers rules of thumb into software that categorized moves as or unsuccessful. Then the researchers let the program run, on an average of 50 computers daily. Some days, the program ran on 200 machines. While the researchers monitored and tweaked the program accordingly. In fact, Chinook humans to win the checkers world championship back in 1994.
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