From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 10:47:28 MDT
John Grigg wrote:
>...
>Lol My strongest game is also Checkers! I've beaten my fair share of human players online. I was even getting kind of cocky until a person claiming to be a ninety year-old lady from Texas beat me into the ground!
>
>The online computer opponent checkers program I was using was just too easy to beat. Is there a Deep Blue for checkers?? LOL
>...
>
I seem to remember from back in the 1960's that there was a program that
played an unbeateable game of checkers. Nobody could beat it, not the
world champion. (Was it designed by "Samuels"?) But nobody was
interested in playing something they had no chance of beating. So all
commercial programs use a less perfect algorithm.
Chess is more difficult to program, but even so most commercial chess
programs are stronger than most players. Or they can be. They come
with adjustable strengths. Becasue nobody likes to loose all the time.
Go is more difficult than chess, but the programs are starting to get
pretty good there, too.
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