Checkers SOLVED

[kobalt]

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/07/19/checkers/

[Digger[NJLP]]

The proof required analyzing 500 billion billion checkers positions -- 5 x 1020 -- a computational process that began in 1989 and has been running on hundreds of processors almost continuously since. Chinook now knows everything about checkers, the perfect response to any move, and the best that any human can do is drive Chinook to a draw. You can never win.

And if you used one of the new quad core processor systems, with 4 gigs of RAM, it'll be done in 11 days not years.

So now I'm ruined for checkers..