Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:47:49 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. I'm not so sure. I knew Marion Tinsley well. He came to Hattiesburg regularly as that is where the world checker hall of fame is located, and that is where he played many matches. He was also a chess player, and came out to my office many times to take on Cray Blitz. The last time I talked to him, he was pretty well convinced that his reign of complete and total domination in checkers was over, and that Chinook was probably already as good or better than he was, and with bigger endgame databases it was obviously on the verge of reaching perfect play. Tinsley wasn't perfect by a long shot, just very, very good. :)
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