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In response to "So what is the perfect play? I'd love to show that to my son. He loves checkers -- nm" by oblique

Here's a link explaining it but you can't play the perfect game, it's a computer program that can do it. -- (link)

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Oct 12 '11, 08:54

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12296-checkers-solved-after-years-of-number-crunching.html (www.newscientist.com)

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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 - oblique Oct 12, 08:57 2
- Yup. Basically the computer can't lose and can only be brought to a draw. - Krusty Oct 12, 09:01
- like tic tac toe, with a much more complicated set of possible results. -- nm - TFox Oct 12, 08:57

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