Gary Gifford wrote on Sat, Mar 29, 2008 02:20 PM UTC:
Thanks Roberto for the very interesting comment. I was fairly big into checkers about 10 years ago and had read several books on it. Did you know that there are actually checker openings?
Anyway seeing that computers have solved a game (essentially a problem with 500 billion billion possible positions (5 x 1020); then I cannot help but wonder how many possible positions our various CVs have. With some of the very large games it must truly be a phenomenal number. Also, having large numbers of piece types... well, take Chess with Different Armies for example, the computers can have fun there. And Chu Shogi... wow!
In closing, the number for checkers is much higher than I would have expected.
Anyway seeing that computers have solved a game (essentially a problem with 500 billion billion possible positions (5 x 1020); then I cannot help but wonder how many possible positions our various CVs have. With some of the very large games it must truly be a phenomenal number. Also, having large numbers of piece types... well, take Chess with Different Armies for example, the computers can have fun there. And Chu Shogi... wow!
In closing, the number for checkers is much higher than I would have expected.