Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:02:44 02/08/01
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On February 08, 2001 at 06:30:14, Tony Werten wrote: >On February 08, 2001 at 04:24:11, David Blackman wrote: > >>On February 07, 2001 at 16:41:28, Tanya Deborah wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>Hi! >>> >>>I am playing a new match in checkers between the 2 strongest Spanish checkers >>>programs of the world... >> >>Just curious, is "Spanish checkers" the same game as "Polish Draughts", >>"International Draughts", "Damen" etc? > >She could have meant 2 spanish programs playing polish checkers :) > >I think it's true for the other coutries as well, but the game played in Holland >is international draughts. >> >>http://www.multimania.com/nic55/dames/dames2.htm >> >>They say it is played in >>"most French-speaking countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and the >>African continent) and also in the Netherlands, and in the ex-soviet union >>countries." > >If I remember correctly, in the SU they let the children start with checkers to >get some ideas about the tactics, before switching to draughts. > >> >>This is the game on the 10x10 board. >> >>According to people who have tried, it is a bit harder to write a strong program >>for it than for chess. Perhaps it should be the next big board-game programming >>challenge, now that chess programs are more or less in reach of the top human >>players, and Go still seems much too hard. > >Depends on what you call difficult. In checkers ( and draught ) there seems to >be no additional strength from searching deeper anymore, only from better >evaluation. Which is a bit harder to achieve. What is the data that you are based on. Is there a ssdf list for draught programs when the same program was tested on different hardwares? Uri
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