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August 2, 2004 - The Chinook team announces that the tournament-opening in checkers called the White Doctor (10–14 22–18 12–16) is proven to be a draw. [ 7 ] January 18, 2006 - The Chinook team announces that the 09–13 21–17 05–09 opening is proven to be a draw.
With all of this work, Samuel's program reached a respectable amateur status and was the first to play any board game at this high a level. He continued to work on checkers until the mid-1970s, at which point his program achieved sufficient skill to challenge a respectable amateur. [14]
[14] [15] Damath: A variant utilizing math principles and numbered chips popular in the Philippines. [16] Dameo: A variant played on an 8×8 board that utilizes all 64 squares and has diagonal and orthogonal movement. A special "sliding" move is used for moving a line of checkers similar to the movement rule in Epaminondas. By Christian ...
Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is widely considered to be the greatest checkers player ever. [ 1 ] Tinsley was world champion from 1955–1958 and from 1975–1991 and never lost a world championship match.
KingsRow is a strong checkers and draughts engine. It was released by Ed Gilbert in 2000. The checkers engine can be used with the CheckerBoard GUI. It is only available as a DLL on Windows since CheckerBoard is a windows-only program. [1] The engine is available as freeware. The engine uses neural networks, opening books, and endgame databases ...
Blondie24 is an artificial intelligence checkers-playing computer program named after the screen name used by a team led by David B. Fogel. The purpose was to determine the effectiveness of an artificial intelligence checkers-playing computer program. The screen name was used on The Zone, [1] an internet boardgaming site in 1999. During this ...
Poddavki (Russian: поддавки́, IPA: [pədːɐˈfkʲi], "giveaway"), also known as Giveaway checkers, Suicide checkers, Anti-checkers or Losing draughts is a draughts (checkers) game based on the rules of Russian draughts, with the variation that a player wins if they have no legal moves on their turn, either by giving up all their pieces or having them all blocked.
Turkish draughts board and starting setup. White moves first. Turkish draughts (Turkish: Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: Dame) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Kurdistan, and several other locations around the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East.