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- An account of Chinook-the computer program that perfected checkers, updated and in softcover
- A must-read for all those interested in computer intelligence and computer games
- Author Schaeffer is a world-renowned expert at the leading center on games, University of Alberta’s GAMES Group
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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I Can’t Lose
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The Opening
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Front Matter
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The Middlegame
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
"...We get a close look into the embarrassingly low-rent, codger-populated world of championship checkers... and a few painless lessons in the game itself... But the most memorable passages deal with Schaeffers's own bittersweet reactions. His brainchild does so well that he can see, all too clearly, its almost tragic effect on the cloistered society of checkers - and on his fellow human beings." Newsweek
" Schaeffer's personal involvement in the Chinook project, along with his engaging and open story-telling makes the book surprisingly gripping." A.K. Dewdney
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Jonathan Schaeffer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: One Jump Ahead
Book Subtitle: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers
Authors: Jonathan Schaeffer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2733-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-2733-3
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 496
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Probability and Statistics in Computer Science