Author: Vine Smith
Date: 04:19:48 05/04/02
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On May 04, 2002 at 06:34:55, Pekka Karjalainen wrote: > >... about checkers, you should know that there are a ton of variants. But the >two most popular, in a way, are the British/American 8x8 checkers, which Chinook >pretty much rules, and so-called International checkers, which is played on a >10x10 board. > >In the latter I think the human GM's are still superior. A while ago there was >a match between an African GM Samb and a top program called Buggy. > >http://www.buggy-online.com/english/match_samb_buggy/match_samb_buggy_e.htm > > If you check the results you can see that Samb won. Of course, there are not >enough results to say anything for sure, but at least there are no results where >the programs have won against the very best palyers. > > These games differ not only in board size but in other rules having to do with >captures and promotion to kings. If you look at the analyzed games on the site, you'll notice a striking similarity to the situation in computer chess -- the program was a dangerous tactician, but had no "feel" for the position. Samb won the tiebreak by exploiting a positional weakness he had noticed in an earlier game. Since draughts is a more tactical game than chess, this would seem to indicate that positional problems will continue to plague chess programs far into the future.
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