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 a game popular ...

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 at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 ...

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday. The team at the University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, ...

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