In a message dated 7/25/2007 12:58:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
h_dunbar@hotmail.com writes:
As a matter of fact, checkers has fairly recently been "solved":
On the wall of the New York Chess and Checker Club (a notable flea house
that in the sixties and seventies was called 'the bucket of blood'), I once
noted an article about the then current US Checkers champion who was quoted as
saying, "I play until I get to a position I recognize and then win it from
there," indicating to me that the game would indeed eventually be solved.
Karen
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