![]() For an exercise in futility, go play checkers against a computer program named Chinook. ![]() The common sense approach worked most of the time, though these decisions were flawed enough to give players some chance of beating the computer.Ĭomputer Checkers Program Is Invincible. In the past, game-playing programs had used a common sense approach in making all decisions. While Chinook is unlikely to start a technological revolution, the steps that were taken to overcome such an improbable obstacle is most interesting. Tests have shown the very best a player can do while playing against the computer is a draw. Apparently 'Chinook', the checker-playing computer program, cannot lose in a game that has been played by young and old for hundreds of years. Researchers in Edmonton, Alberta have launched a simple computer program that claims to have 'solved' the game of checkers.
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