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 ...

WASHINGTON – 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 ...

Computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved checkers, the popular board game with a history that dates back to 3,000 B.C. After more than 18 years and sifting through 500 billion ...

Checkers & Rally’s announced a new program starting Saturday, April 18, that offers free meals to medical workers and first responders at more than 250 company-owned Checkers & Rally’s restaurants ...

Willoughby Public Library will be hosting a program March 18 on how to win at checkers with Richard Beckwith, grandmaster and president of the World Checkers Draughts Federation. The program will take ...

The computer program Chinook has been vanquishing human opponents in checkers for over ten years. Now, scientists at the University of Alberta (Chinook's home) say they have improved the program so ...

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 ...

After almost two decades, a dozen University of Alberta researchers using hundreds ofcomputers have created a computer program that always wins or ties at the game of checkers. Jonathan Schaeffer, ...

Long-time world checkers champion Marion Tinsley consistently bested all comers, losing only nine games in the 40 years following his 1954 crowning. He lost his world championship title to a computer ...

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 ...