One more game you cannot win…

For nearly two decades, fifty computers have been running day and night on an extremely complex problem. Today, scientists from the University of Alberta announced the result of all that work – they have solved the game of checkers. Chinook, the computer program they developed, can never be beaten – try for yourself. While checkers is the most complicated game to be solved so far, it is not the only one. You can play a perfect game of tic-tac-toe, of course, but also connect four, and a 6×6 board of the game othello. Chess players are already thinking ahead to when their game is solved, with Advanced Chess being Gary Kasparov’s answer. The hardest game to completely solve might be Go, which may not be solved until 2100.