Checkers Solved, No More Fun
Dorks have created a perfect Checkers playing computer named Chinook. You can apparently play against it here, though at the time of this writing, its server is slammed into submission.
” The proof required analyzing 500 billion billion checkers positions — 5 x 1020 — a computational process that began in 1989 and has been running on hundreds of processors almost continuously since.”
…Well I’ll be damned.
(thx salon.com)