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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by bohadi on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:41AM (#32165659)
It turns out Checkers was solved, for perfect play, in 2007 if anyone was wondering.

https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/publications/solving...

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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by OskarS on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @10:32AM (#32166289)
By Chinook, actually. The computer science Jonathan Schaeffer became obsessed with solving checkers, because it was the only way to prove that Chinook could've beaten Tinsley in a fair game (as Tinsley passed away before Chinook could defeat him on the board).
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Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title by Arocalexi on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @10:47AM (#32166498)
All the links are broken on that webpage.
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