King me!

The world of check­ers is being turned upside-down by claims that Chinook, a com­puter pro­gram, is invincible.

Okay, maybe the world isn’t upside-down–I have no way to find out because I don’t know where the checker’s world is, and I’m not going to spend time look­ing for it online. Still, you have to admit that the asser­tion that a com­puter pro­gram is unbeat­able is some­thing, espe­cially when it’s pub­lished in Science (abstract only).

Reminds me of that movie Wargames. “Would you like to play a game?”

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