Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 22:27:38 05/03/02
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Russell, Martin Fierz is a great checkers computer programmer. His site is most comprehensive. He posts at this site regularly. http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm Enjoy, Tim Frohlick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On May 04, 2002 at 00:58:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >I'm curious if anyone knows anything about the computer checkers scene. I know >about computer chess, how chess programs work, how good chess programs are >compared to the best human chess players, etc. and would like to find out about >checkers programs. I know that (for example) go programs aren't anywhere close >to master strength. So are checkers programs as good as the best master checkers >players? I would guess that checkers would probably use some of the same basic >methods as a chess program, such as search and evaluation, but are there any >special methods that a checkers program would use that chess programs don't? Or >any methods a chess program uses that a checkers program wouldn't use >successfully? > >I've only recently started playing checkers to get a feel for the game, but it >seems like there are a great number of positions where zugzwang occurs and so >null move probably wouldn't work in checkers, or maybe it would need >modifications. I'm mainly interested in checkers programs and that whole >"scene", but also if anyone has any info to offer on other game playing programs >I'd like to hear that as well. I'm more a fan of game playing programs and AI >methods in general than only chess. > >One last thing I thought about was endgame tablebases. Are these available for >checkers or other games? It seems like it might be both faster and smaller to >generate the tablebases for checkers, but I'm not totally sure on that. There >are fewer pieces on the board and fewer squares of the board that are in use, so >it seems like endgame tablebases might play a more significant role if they were >created for checkers. > >Thanks for your info. > >Russell
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