sciam.com — Jonathan Schaeffer's quest for the perfect game of checkers has ended. He left human players in the dust more than a decade ago after a trial by fire against the greatest checkers champion in history. And now, after putting dozens of computers to work night and day for 18 years, he has solved the game. It is a draw. Is chess next?
Jul 19, 2007 View in Crawl 4
waynegoodeJul 19, 2007Submitter
Yes, it is a duplicate. But the other articles had the wrong lead or other problems. It's not that the computer program is unbeatable. It is that the game has been "solved". More on the meaning of "solved" at <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game</a>