bob wrote:
>Suppose that it has been discovered that with a certain opening
>play that the first player can force a win. One might then say that
>checkers has been solved. This knowledge though does not say what the
>theoretical status of the game is if a different opening play is
>forced.
Do a Google search on phrases (with the quotation marks) such as:
"weakly solved"
"strongly solved"
"ultra-weakly solved"
"ultra-strongly solved"
....then come back and post an answer that DOESN'T suck.