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Subject: Re: Off topic diversion.

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 04:41:16 06/09/99

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On June 09, 1999 at 06:51:13, Marc Plum wrote:

>On June 08, 1999 at 22:06:48, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>(snip)
>>I own World Championship Checkers and it has tablebases.  I run it on an "old"
>>133 Pentium with no hash tables.  It once announced a forced win in 86 moves.
>>No matter what I did the prediction rang true.
>
>(snip)
>
>Hope you don't mind a quick off topic digression, but the above caught my eye.
>How much of checkers is now covered by tablebases?  How do checkers programs now
>compare with the best humans.  Any suggested websites for more on these
>questions?
>
>Marc Plum

Chinook is the world Man-Machine champion, and has been so since Marion Tinsley
became ill and resigned their last match.  (He died shortly thereafter. :-( )
It has since defeated the best OTB human in OTB play, and the best
correspondence human in correspondence play.  Jonathan has since retired it,
though sooner or later he will get around to strongly solving the game.

For further info, check out "http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/".

Dave



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