Author: Tony Werten
Date: 05:17:10 02/08/01
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On February 08, 2001 at 08:02:44, Uri Blass wrote: >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? I've got it from some papers about diminishing returns for additional search. The conclusion was that a 19ply searching program is hardly stronger than a 17ply. Tony > >Uri
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