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Subject: Re: A match in DRAUGHTS , Too many DRAWS !!!

Author: David Blackman

Date: 00:25:39 02/09/01

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On February 08, 2001 at 05:26:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>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.

Chinook played the British/USA version of checkers. That has only an 8x8 board.
Last i heard there were no master strength programs for the 10x10 game, though
some programs were probably getting close.



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