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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 ...
The Columbus Checkers were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League from 1966 to 1970, and the first professional hockey team in Columbus, Ohio. Their first game was against the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League on October 12, 1966 at the Ohio Expo Fairgrounds Coliseum.
Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta, by a team led by Jonathan Schaeffer and consisting of Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar.
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.
Nemesis is an English draughts program by Murray Cash. Today Nemesis is no longer commercially available; development stopped years ago. Nemesis was the strongest program in 2002, when it won the British computer championship against Wyllie, a 16-game match ending +5 =11 in favor of Nemesis and the Computer Checkers World Championship played out in Las Vegas.
Programmers added specific heuristics for the endgame – for example, the king should move to the center of the board. [10] However, a more comprehensive solution was needed. In 1965, Richard Bellman proposed the creation of a database to solve chess and checkers endgames using retrograde analysis.
Endgame tablebase, a database saying how to play endgames; Expectiminimax tree, an adaptation of a minimax game tree to games with an element of chance; Extensive-form game, a game tree enriched with payoffs and information available to players; Game classification, an article discussing ways of classifying games
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