Chinook Checkers Program Developed By Jonathan Schaeffer, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar

Chinook Checkers Program

Chinook Checkers Program Developed By Jonathan Schaeffer, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar

The Chinook Checkers Program is designed to play checkers, and it also had won the championship against a human player. The program’s algorithmic design consists of an open book that holds the library of all move functions, an algorithm for deep search, a process to evaluate a good move, and a database for the overall functionality of the game. Read more

August, 1994