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Subject: Re: Checkers Programs

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 21:19:47 08/11/03

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On August 11, 2003 at 22:29:28, Luis Smith wrote:

>On August 11, 2003 at 20:51:54, ludicrous wrote:
>
>>A little bit off topic, but I'd like to know if there is a SSDF-like list for
>>Checkers Programs?    I've heard of KINGSROW and it seems to be the Ruffian
>>equivalent of Checkers.
>>
>>Which is the strongest?
>>
>>What is the rating systems used in Checkers?
>
>The best freeware Checkers program I *believe* is Cake ++.  It seems to be
>better than Kingsrow but Kingsrow is also better.
>
>The strongest checkers program is Chinook.  It played for the World Checkers
>Championship against Marion(sp?) Tinsley.  It is supposed to have some very high
>number of TB's like up to 10 man if I remember correctly.

I do not know but chinook is an old program and based on posts I did not get the
impression that it is better than Cake++

Uri



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