>Hello all.
>
>I recently became interested in checkers again, wondering if it has
>been solved yet.
Definitely not solved yet.
>I saw the chinook page has solved one 3 move
>opening, and might solve it soon.
A long way from being solved. Read Shaeffer's book "One Jump Ahead."
>So I decided to write my own checkers program. It shouldn't be that
>tough, as I've written chess programs before long ago.
>6 hours later, I have something that beats me every time!
>Standard alpha-beta, with the only eval as 1 for pieces and 2 for
>kings. No books. No hash table (yet). It gets to ply 16 (plus
>quiescent search until no more captures) from the start in less than a
>minute.
>
>If anyone is interested, I'll send you a copy in exchange for feedback
>and suggestions on how to make it better (both in play and the
>interface). Right now it's a console app, not windowed.
Try it out against Sage Draughts and see how it fares.
M Man
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