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Subject: Re: Question about checkers for chess programmers

Author: Mark Rawlings

Date: 12:35:53 10/25/99

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You should take a look at the book "One Jump Ahead" by Jonathon Schaeffer about
his development of Chinook (the computer checker champ).  The book has a lot of
info about the evaluation routine he used in Chinook.  It's also a very
entertaining book!

Mark


On October 25, 1999 at 12:39:01, Jeff Kenton wrote:

>
>I'm beginning to write a checkers playing program (just for the hell of it).
>
>Given that checkers has fewer choices at any move but tends to require deeper
>look ahead, which of the programming look ahead strategies do you consider to be
>most suitable?
>
>Also, for those who actually understand checkers well (I don't), what positional
>factors are most important for evaluating a position.



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