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Why are there still checkers tournaments? The perfect gameplay was discovered in 2007. -- (link)
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mara
Oct 12 '11, 08:47
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http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2011/10/on-checkers.html
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So what is the perfect play? I'd love to show that to my son. He loves checkers -- nm
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oblique
Oct 12, 08:51
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Here's a link explaining it but you can't play the perfect game, it's a computer program that can do it. -- (link)
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Krusty
Oct 12, 08:54
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So basically it's not that there is a "winning set of moves" that cannot be beat but that there is now a database of all combinations
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oblique
Oct 12, 08:57
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Yup. Basically the computer can't lose and can only be brought to a draw.
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Krusty
Oct 12, 09:01
like tic tac toe, with a much more complicated set of possible results. -- nm
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TFox
Oct 12, 08:57
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