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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" ...

After 13 years of brute-force computer analysis examining all 500 billion billion possible board positions, researchers said Thursday they had solved the centuries-old game of checkers. The result? A ...

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, ...

If players play perfectly, the game will end in a draw, say researchers. July 19, 2007 — -- Millions of checkers players worldwide can put down their pieces -- the ancient game has been solved, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 ...

Checkers has 500 billion billion theoretically possible board positions. It is the most complex game that has been solved to date. Anyone can play a game against the ...