WASHINGTON – 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 ...

Checkers Computer Can't Be Beat It took more than 18 years, but computer scientists have completely solved the game of chess, with a program that can be tied but never beaten. Steve Mirsky reports.

In checkers, players move different colored checkers and capture their opponent's pieces to win. Here are a few strategies to ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT TOOK 18 years to figure out all 500 billion billion combinations at checkers, but Canadian scientists have finally programmed a computer that can't be beaten at the 5000-year-old game. The ...

After 13 years of brute-force computer analysis examining all 500 billion billion possible board positions, researchers announced Thursday that they had solved the centuries-old game of checkers ...

Checkers champion Marion Tinsley, 67, fell ill Wednesday morning after playing Chinook, the checkers program created by a researcher at the University of Alberta in Canada, to a draw for six ...

A Canadian computer named Chinook has been analyzing the game of checkers since 1989, and has gone through every single one of the 500 quintillion (no, I'm not making that word up) possible ...

It's official: you can't beat a computer at checkers. Here's what we can do… Stephen Cauchi December 23, 2007 — 11.00am Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ...

The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday.