Author: Tony Werten
Date: 03:30:14 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? 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. It also means that a faster computer doesn't give you a stronger computer automaticly. cheers, Tony
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