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Subject: Re: Question about checkers for chess programmers

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 13:31:11 10/25/99

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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.
Try to get some literature, for example
"One Jump Ahead" by Jonathan Schaeffer
Springer, ISBN 0-387-94930-5

It is not very technical but I enjoyed reading it a lot.

Frank



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