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Article: Review of One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers.(Review)
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 American Association for Artificial Intelligence. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In 1989, Jonathan Schaeffer of the University of Alberta set out to build a world checkers champion. He succeeded. In 1994, CHINOOK, the program written by Schaeffer and his group, won the Man versus Machine World Checkers Championship. (Although CHINOOK has now mostly retired from championship checkers, it is still possible to play CHINOOK. TO play CHINOOK or just see information about CHINOOK and checkers in general, go to www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook.)
Schaeffer then went on to write a book about his quest. The result, One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers, is an extraordinary book. One Jump Ahead provides a history of CHINOOK, from its ...