Checker pieces, in contrast, move across the playing board in a somewhat simpler and more linear fashion. Most checker players are only thinking 2-3 steps beyond their next move.

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WASHINGTON - Perhaps Chinook, the checkers-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report that they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot ...

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It’ll be about how the Falcons zigged while everyone else zagged. Ryan Leaf is already dubbing it a success, telling Kay Adams that Atlanta is playing chess while others are playing checkers.