Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:26:40 02/08/01
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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? > >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." > >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. I think that the opposite is truth. I remember that I read that chinook won against the world champion in this game before Deeper blue(I read that the result was 2:1 and 67 draws). Intuition also tells me that the game is simpler than chess for computers. The number of squares for pieces is only 50 when the number of squares in chess is 64. The number of possible pieces for every side is only 2 when in chess there are more pieces. The number of possible positions is clearly smaller than 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. I guess that go is hard for computers because of the dimension of the board. I guess that computers are also going to have no chance in the near future against the best humans if the dimension of the board will be 19*19 in chess or in draught. Uri
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