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One jump ahead : challenging human supremacy in checkers / Jonathan Schaeffer.

Title: One jump ahead : challenging human supremacy in checkers / Jonathan Schaeffer.
Author: Schaeffer, Jonathan.
Publication: New York : Springer, c1997.

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xiv, 496 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This extraordinary book tells the story of the world champion checkers program, Chinook. From its beginnings in 1988, Chinook quickly became a worthy opponent for the world championship. By 1992 it had defeated all of the world's top human players - except for one. The world champion, Dr. Marion Tinsley, was as close to perfection as was humanly possible. Although initially a research project, the Chinook effort soon changed directions and became a quest to defeat Tinsley. Instead of an impersonal contest between a man and a machine, this became a personal battle between two humans striving for supremacy at checkers."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-459) and index.

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committed to retain

ISBN

0387949305 (New York : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^96039873^//r98

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Harvard Library