Author: Duncan Roberts
Date: 15:38:04 10/11/04
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/ Breaking News! We have achieved a milestone in our quest to solve the game of checkers. The White Doctor opening (10-14 22-18 12-16) has been solved: it is a draw. This means that our program when playing Black (the weak side) will never lose. When playing White, our program will never lose and may win (if the opponent makes a mistake). You can view our solution to the White Doctor opening here. ... Data reuse. Openings transpose into each other. Each additional opening increases the chances for reusing the results of one opening on another. The only obstacle remaining to completely solving checkers is compute cycles. With the current resources we are using, finishing checkers will take a few years. With enough resources, the game could be solved in a few months. Contact jonathan@cs.ualberta.ca if you have a cluster of computers with at least 3 GB of RAM and 300 GB of local disk per machine sitting idle! duncan
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