All Your Kings Are Belong to Us: The Code To Checkers Cracked

Some asshat team of Canadians has written a computer program that cannot lose at checkers. Aside from the fact that this ruins a decent game, it apparently took an average of 50 computers EIGHTEEN YEARS to figure it out. Is this really where we need our resources? Not curing cancer? Or AIDS? Or mapping the human genome? But solving checkers? Oy.

Also disturbing about the BBC’s article is that the guy that wrote the program consulted with champion checker players. Um, what? There are checker champions? Are they the guys the chess club beats up?