Checkers champions, meet your match. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. An invincible checkers-playing program named Chinook has ...

After almost two decades, a dozen University of Alberta researchers using hundreds ofcomputers have created a computer program that always wins or ties at the game of checkers. Jonathan Schaeffer, ...

A team at the University of Alberta has solved the game of checkers, creating a checkers-playing program that cannot be beaten. A deceptively simple-looking game, there are actually 500 billion ...

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 ...

Computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved checkers, the popular board game with a history that dates back to 3,000 B.C. After more than 18 years and sifting through 500 billion ...