For an exercise in futility, play checkers against a computer program named Chinook. Developed by computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada, Chinook vanquished human competitors at ...

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, ...

Back in 1994, a computer called “Chinook” became the World Checkers Champion. By 1996, the checkers world came to accept that the computer was better than any other player. However, it wasn’t until ...

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 ...

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 ...