Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 09:55:00 07/01/00
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On July 01, 2000 at 12:21:51, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >Hey, > >>Chinook is better at checkers than anything else on the planet -- by a wide >>margin. > > >Anything _alive_ yes :P The issue of Marion is one yet undecided - and I'm not >sure that Chinook could have beat him at his best, but we will never know that >now though .. however, it is clear that Chinook is the best checkers "player" >currently on the planet. That being said, Chinook may be better than every >other player, but it didn't demonstrate complete dominance - the top human >players can still beat it once in a while :P > >Hmm, wait a minute.. we haven't asked the wombats.. :P > > >Adrien. Dr. Tinsley '94 and Chinook '94 were about equal. It's tough to compare Dr. Tinsley '57 and Chinook '00 though. I don't know why you say that the top human players can still beat it once in a while. Please cite the game. My understanding is that it hasn't lost a game since the last time Tinsley beat it. It has since clobbered both the reigning human world checkers champion and the reigning human world correspondence checkers champion. We're talking +8 -0 =12 types of scores, and checkers is much more drawish than chess. Dave
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