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2. Checkers - Wikipedia

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   Checkers is played by two opponents on opposite sides of the game board. One player has dark pieces (usually black); the other has light pieces (usually white or red). The darker color moves first, then players alternate turns. A player cannot move the opponent's pieces. A move consists of moving a piece forward to an adjacent unoccupied square.

3. Arthur Samuel (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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   Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 – July 29, 1990) [3] was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. [2] He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959. [4] The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs, and as such a very early demonstration of ...

4. Marion Tinsley - Wikipedia

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   1975–1991. Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is widely considered to be the greatest checkers player ever. [1] Tinsley was world champion from 1955–1958 and from 1975–1991 and never lost a world championship match. He lost only seven games (two of them to the ...

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   The best board game ever, Checkers, is here. Make your move, red or black, and king me! Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...

6. Play Checkers Casual Style Online for Free - AOL.com

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   Checkers: Casual Style. Checkers the fast way! Move where you want to, jump where you want to. You asked for it and Games.com listened! By Masque Publishing. Advertisement. Advertisement. Feedback.

7. English draughts - Wikipedia

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   Synonyms. American checkers. straight checkers. checkers (or chequers) draughts (or drafts) English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, [note 1] is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side.

8. Chinook (computer program) - Wikipedia

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   Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta, by a team led by Jonathan Schaeffer and consisting of Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar. The program's algorithms include an opening book which is a library of opening moves ...

9. Charles Walker (checkers player) - Wikipedia

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   In the 1990s, Charles Walker helped organize and publicize several World Man-Machine Checkers Championship matches of the checkers computer called Chinook against several human players. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Walker was a long-term friend, admirer, and promoter of World Checkers champion Marion Tinsley , whom Walker described as "the greatest checkers ...