Tuesday
Jul252017
How Checkers Was Solved (With An Occasional Nod to Chess)
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 3:45PM
Once upon a time I linked to a somewhat similar article, but this is a new one. While of more direct interest to our checker (a.k.a. draughts) playing cousins, it is of some interest to those of us in chess, too. (HT: James Turnbull)
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Reader Comments (1)
It should be noted that checkers is played on an 8 x 8 board; Tinsley was the best ever in that game.
Draughts however (the international version) is played on a 10 x 10 board, with illustrious names like Ton Sijbrands, Harm Wiersma, Alexei Chizhov and Alexander Schwarzman. The latter beat the silicon beast in a match as late as April 2012 (quite a while ago that a chessplayer could say that).
http://laatste.info/bb3/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=3801&start=30
http://content.iospress.com/articles/icga-journal/icg35209
There is also a variation called Canadian checkers played on a 12 x 12 board.
[DM: See the Wikipedia page on Draughts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draughts]