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Subject: Re: SPANISH WORLD CHECKER TOURNAMENT FINISHED !!!!!!! LOOK !!!

Author: martin fierz

Date: 15:23:22 03/15/02

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On March 15, 2002 at 07:10:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 15, 2002 at 06:16:59, Tanya Deborah wrote:
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>>Hello to all!
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>>THE III SPANSIH WORLD CHECKER TOURNAMENT FINISHED IN FEBRAURY, (In my country)
>>AND A PROGRAM NAMED : ISABEL most known like Truus-made by the great programmer
>>Stef Keetman  WON THE BIG TOURNAMENT.  IT PLAY 64 games!!! and not lose a single
>>game!
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>>You can see the tournament in :    http://www.juego-de-damas.com/ingles/
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>>Checkers is great !!!
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>>Best Regards!
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>>Tanya Deborah
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>This game seems to be almost solved by the programs
>out of 64 games Isabel could win only 8 games.

in the world championship match between chinook and the late don lafferty,
back in '95, chinook won with 1 game vs 0 in a 32-game match. seen in this
light, isabel is much further away from solving spanish checkers than chinook
was.
however, even chinook was very far away from that... it's just the nature of
checkers which makes it a very drawish game, unlike chess. in chess, you have
much more possibilities to unbalance a game than in checkers.

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>I wonder how many years we need to wait in order to see
>56 draws out of 64 games between the top chess programs.
>
>Uri





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