If you've ever felt the need to sit down and play a game of checkers with a computer, don't bother anymore. You simply cannot win. It's not that the odds of you beating it are slim to none, it's that ...

August 8, 2007 After 18 years of work, Jonathan Schaeffer from the University of Alberta, has announced the completion of Chinook, a checkers playing program that has calculated every possible playing ...

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday. The team at the University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, ...

Computers can now play a flawless game of checkers. A calculation that began almost 2 decades ago shows that if both players make perfect moves, the game will be a draw every time. The achievement ...

Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular ...

WASHINGTON – Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed “King Me.” Canadian researchers report they have “solved” checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in ...

Back in 1994, a computer called “Chinook” became the World Checkers Champion. By 1996, the checkers world came to accept that the computer was better than any other player. However, it wasn’t until ...

In 1962 Arthur Samuel shocked the world. He built a computer that could challenge then- reigning checkers champion, Robert Nealy. The machine won, but it wasn't the triumph alone that grabbed ...