Game over. 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 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 ...

Checkers champions, meet your match. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. An invincible checkers-playing program named Chinook has ...

The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported. The team at the University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, the 5,000-year-old popular board game also ...

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 ...

It took up to 200 computers working simultaneously since 1989, but computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved the game of draughts, known in the US as checkers, meaning that humans ...

It took more than 18 years, but computer scientists have completely solved the game of chess, with a program that can be tied but never beaten. Steve Mirsky reports. If you're enjoying this article, ...

IT TOOK 18 years to figure out all 500 billion billion combinations at checkers, but Canadian scientists have finally programmed a computer that can't be beaten at the 5000-year-old game. The ...

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 ...