Yep: Checkers is draw. http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/project/ But I do have to agree with wafflemaster: solved or not solved, I still suck at it.
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Its weird when you play a few games of checkers and then try to play chess...you get irrational impulses about what to do with the pieces.
Here_Is_Plenty wrote:
Its weird when you play a few games of checkers and then try to play chess...you get irrational impulses about what to do with the pieces.
Hhehehe
AnthonyCG wrote:
I thought they finally solved checkers.
They indeed have. They proved it's a draw with best play by both sides:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/317/5844/1518.abstract
It's solved, but that doesn't matter. No human could possibly remember all the possible combinations.
woodshover wrote:
It's solved, but that doesn't matter. No human could possibly remember all the possible combinations.
Agreed.
I enjoy and suck at both.
We had a draught here in Texas.
Here_Is_Plenty wrote:
Its weird when you play a few games of checkers and then try to play chess...you get irrational impulses about what to do with the pieces.
I get those irrational impulses when playing chess, too. And, I haven't played checkers in years.
I tried my hand at checkers briefly and even played in a state checkers championship and had a terrible result. The oddest differences , to me, from chess were that you would play 4 games with an opponent and the " openings" were forced/dictated by drawing from a deck of cards . ( 3 move restriction which is most popular ) you would play both the strong and weak side of the opening with your opponent and then draw again from the deck for a second opening and repeat. There were names for the various checkers openings, like chess and some were odd/strange , just like chess. I recall a few : white doctor , black doctor, old faithful , octopus ... etc.
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Big problem that checkers suffers is that you cannot obtain a quality set in the stores like walmart, you either have to go online or a specialty shop if you live in a large city like NYC. For adults its hard to take seriously those $3 sets sold with a cardboard and pieces that weigh nothing. I bought backgammon pieces for checkers from a specialty shop and they are nice.
the only thing that checkers has it that board.GO CHESS!!!!!
Marion Tinsley a math professor at FAMU was world checkers champion and lost only 7 games in 45 years. He beat the computer in a match in 1992. Probably with a computer today it would be all draws against the best human player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Tinsley
They claim checkers has been solved... however the best humans dont seem to know the solution(s) as they continue to play and lose to one another.....