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 ...

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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 ...