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Invented by Inoue Enryō and described in Japanese book in 1890. [22] Suicide checkers (also called Anti-Checkers, Giveaway Checkers or Losing Draughts): A variant where the objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces. [23] [24] Tiers: A complex variant which allows players to upgrade their pieces beyond kings. [citation needed]
Playing Hop Ching checkers, Montreal, 1942. The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game Halma. [5] Like all Halma games, there is a similarity to checkers. The Stern (German for star) refers to the board's star shape (in contrast to the square board used in Halma).
The earliest precursor of modern chess is a game called chaturanga, which flourished in India by the 6th century, and is the earliest known game to have two essential features found in all later chess variations—different pieces having different powers (which was not the case with checkers and Go), and victory depending on the fate of one ...
It was actually invented in Germany under the name. Today's Game of the Day is a board game classic: Chinese Checkers! Chinese Checkers, contrary to popular belief, was not invented in China, or ...
The first spell checkers were widely available on mainframe computers in the late 1970s. A group of six linguists from Georgetown University developed the first spell-check system for the IBM corporation. [8] Henry Kučera invented one for the VAX machines of Digital Equipment Corp in 1981. [9]
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.
Pawns move as pieces in checkers: they move, without taking, one square diagonally forward, but take by jumping two squares diagonally forward over an enemy piece to an empty square, thereby removing the enemy piece.
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]