Transcript: Computer Wins Checker Series by Default

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NPR All Things Considered
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August 19, 1994
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: In Boston today, at the city's Computer Museum, one world champion checkers match is over and another is set to begin tomorrow. These are contests between a human and a computer, and, as NPR's Alex Chadwick reports, the results so far are mixed.

ALEX CHADWICK, Reporter: Well, `mixed' might be giving the humans more edge than they've earned. Actually, the computer is the default winner so far, but only because a medical condition has forced an early end to the match. After drawing six games since play started on Monday, Dr. Marion Tinsley [sp] said today his doctors have ordered him to stop playing. And, if the checker board ...

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