For an exercise in futility, play checkers against a computer program named Chinook. Developed by computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada, Chinook vanquished human competitors at ...

If you've ever felt the need to sit down and play a game of checkers with a computer, don't bother anymore. You simply cannot win. It's not that the odds of you beating it are slim to none, it's that ...

If players play perfectly, the game will end in a draw, say researchers. July 19, 2007 — -- Millions of checkers players worldwide can put down their pieces -- the ancient game has been solved, ...

Checkers champions, meet your match. An invincible checkers-playing program named Chinook has solved a game whose origins date back several millennia, scientists reported Thursday on the journal ...

Need a quick form of entertainment this summer? Why not pull out a checkerboard while you're bored? The beloved 8x8 board is home to both checkers and chess and is a staple in many living rooms, parks ...

After 13 years of brute-force computer analysis examining all 500 billion billion possible board positions, researchers said Thursday they had solved the centuries-old game of checkers. The result? A ...

You know how to play checkers. But you don`t know how to play checkers against him. No one has beaten the checker champion in a match for 30 years. Even computer programmers don`t take him on, despite ...

After 13 years of brute-force computer analysis examining all 500 billion billion possible board positions, researchers announced Thursday that they had solved the centuries-old game of checkers. The ...

Game over. Computer scientists have solved checkers, the popular board game with a history that dates back to 3,000 B.C. After 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 billion billion (a five ...