> It has been published that checkers has been solved. See:
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/317/5844/1518
>
> However, I am hearing that checkers has not been solved at all. Only
> free-style checkers has been solved. Tournament style checkers where
> there is a drawing to determine the first three moves is still an
> actively contested game.
>
> Which is true? Does anybody know?
Both can be true, in that the moves that "solved" the game can be excluded
for other territory that is not solved but which are made moot by the
solution, except when the solution moves cannot be played.
Applied to chess, if 1. e4 proved a forced win for White, but no one
solved
1. d4, and you banned 1. e4 from tournament play, then tournament chess
would not be solved, while chess as a whole, would be.
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