WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday. The team at the University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, ...

Chinook computer checkers champ now king forever Solving the game meant an average of 50 computers working in parallel had to examine the outcomes of every possible move, a search space of 5 by 10 to ...

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 game popular ...