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kottke.org posts about checkers

American Checkers for the iPhone

Damn you, Gruber, for getting me hooked on this checkers game for the iPhone. My checkers strategy, honed in many childhood games against my dad, is slowly coming back to me.


It was announced in July that it

It was announced in July that it was no longer possible for a human to win a game of checkers against a properly prepared machine. Checkers has been solved. Gelf Magazine looked at several other games (sudoku, chess, Scrabble, Go, etc.) to see if they’d been solved also.