Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 03:59:38 12/10/02
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On December 10, 2002 at 04:52:10, Nicolas GUIBERT wrote: >>>I strongly suggest you to subscribe to the newsletter. That's the best way to be >>>informed quickly. >> >>Draughts and checkers=same things correct? So then where is cake and Chinook..? >> Or is that a completly different game? > >Many differences between the games. Tony Werten explained most of them. On the >computing side, there are also some interesting differences : > >International draughts is farther from being solved than Checkers for a few >reasons : > >- average number of moves per game : 50-60 per player (25-30 for checkers) >- average number of moves per position : 10-13 (6-7-8 ?) >- number of pieces at the start of the game : 20 per player (12) >- opening book is much less decisive than in Checkers and any other game. In >10x10 draughts, it is mostly a question of fashion. All opening moves are good ! >Can you find many games with this feature ? > >The best programs have not yet reached the level of world champion. It has >already been done in checkers for a few years. And well, also, already twice in >Chess. This says more about the amateuristic level of draughts than about the professional level in chess where commercial interests are far bigger and results usually dependant upon commercial interests more than sportive with regard as human - computer. With regard to checkers, we cannot take that game serious of course. You can play it perfect if there is a good games programmer doing it. I'm not talking about university programmers then who needed to figure out the basics first. >Hope this is of interest.
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