Checkers champions, meet your match. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. An invincible checkers-playing program named Chinook has ...

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. If you're enjoying this article, ...

If you've ever felt the need to sit down and play a game of checkers with a computer, don't bother anymore. You simply cannot win. It's not that the odds of you beating it are slim to none, it's that ...

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 ...

The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported. The team at the University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, the 5,000-year-old popular board game also ...

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. The ...

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 ...

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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 a ...