"The End of the ladies" is precisely the title the note in Página/12 Paenza Adrán yesterday. That in 2007 the Canadian mathematician Jonathan Schaeffer, after nearly 19 years of work, finished writing the computer program that plays checkers and never loses. Had to work during that time with 50 machines in parallel at least, that at times turned into 250. A fact that explains why both laburo is that all possible positions in a checkerboard some 500 trillion (500.000.000.000.000.000.000). The program is called Chinook, and long before they are finished competing in the world championship checkers. In 1992 he reached the final but lost to Marion Tinsley, the best player of all time. In 1994 he tried again and won, but the note clarifies Tinsley, who died a year later, he was very sick.
the note said: "The game consists of a board of 8 x 8 (like chess), and each participant has 12 chips." When I was a kid playing with a board of 10 x 10, and was convinced that these were the true rest. But no, I looked online and it seems now that the original game with just 12 pieces. Fortunately, because it would have taken many more years I guess the bigger and more trablero chips.
If you want to read the full article, this is the link .
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