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    • #6144
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      And NO it’s not chess – looks like that game is safe for many years to come because it has somewhere in the region of a billion billion billion billion billion possible positions ;)

      Computers crack famous board game
      It could be a case of game over for draughts – scientists say the ancient board game has finally been solved.

      A Canadian team has created a computer program that can win or draw any game, no matter who the opponent is.

      Full story:
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6907018.stm

    • #37773
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      think i heard this guy speak at a ai conference on games in essex about 2 years ago. That cs dept has a very famous game theory group, some of the guys at the 4C research group in u.c.c. i think worked with them on stuff over the years. That’d be the research group i studied with.

    • #37775
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      I thought draughts had been solved ages ago :(

    • #37776
      Anonymous
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      Different kind of Draught Dave :D

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