Archive for category: Checkers

Is this an easy, hard problem, or a hard, easy problem?

April 23, 2008 | Checkers | By: Mark VandeWettering

I’ve been entering puzzles from various checkers books that I have lying around as test cases for my checkers program milhouse. Oddly enough, I found the following puzzle to be fairly interesting. White is to move and win. The answer to solving it (as obviously contrived as it is, it would be very, very hard […]

Graham Kendall – Game Playing Research – Checkers

April 20, 2008 | Checkers | By: Mark VandeWettering

A brief history and bibliography of checkers research.

Some statistics on historical checkers games…

April 19, 2008 | Checkers | By: Mark VandeWettering

As part of my ongoing checkers work, I downloaded the Open Checkers Archive and wrote a simple bison/flex parser to read in the data. I am not illiterate when it comes to bison and flex, but it’s usually long enough between uses that it takes me an hour or two to tinker these things together. […]