One Jump Ahead (eBook)
XX, 585 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-76576-1 (ISBN)
The scientists who developed Chinook rigorously proved that Chinook can never lose, i.e. computer checkers has been solved. Author Schaeffer detailed the process on the web site of the journal Science in July 2007, and the story has since been reported in the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, USA Today, Discover Magazine, as well as on MSNBC and CNN, among others.
It's hard to believe that it's been over a decade since One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy at Checkers was published. I'm delighted to have the oppor- nity to update and expand the book. The ?rst edition ended on a sad note and that was re?ected in the writing. It is now eleven years later and the project has come to a satisfying conclusion. Since its inception, the checkers project has consumed eighteen years of my life- twenty if you count the pre-CHINOOK and post-solving work. It's hard for me to believe that I actually stuck with it for that long. My wife, Steph, would probably have something witty to say about my obsessive behavior. Rereading the book after a decade was dif?cult for me. When I originally wrote One Jump Ahead, I vowed to be candid in my telling of the story. That meant being honest about what went right and what went wrong. I have been criticized for being hard on some of the characters. That may be so, but I hope everyone will agree that the person receiving the most criticism was, justi?ably, me. I tried to be balanced in the storytelling, re?ecting things as they really happened and not as some sanitized everyone-lived-happily-ever-after tale.
The scientists who developed Chinook rigorously proved that Chinook can never lose, i.e. computer checkers has been solved. Author Schaeffer detailed the process on the web site of the journal Science in July 2007, and the story has since been reported in the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, USA Today, Discover Magazine, as well as on MSNBC and CNN, among others.
Preface 6
Acknowledgments 8
Preface (1997) 9
Acknowledgments (1997) 12
Contents 14
I Feel I Can’t Lose 17
The Opening Game 19
This Was Going To Be Easy 20
Bottomless Well 39
The Middle Game 48
Valuable Lessons 49
The Illusion of Intelligence 67
A Nobel Turing Trio 84
Didn’t Samuel Solve That Game? 97
The Case for the Prosecution 108
As Close to Perfection As Humanly Possible 131
You Look Like a Checkers Player 138
The Fudge Factor 150
I Feel Like a Teenager Again 176
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines 204
Trust Me 229
A Wake-Up Call 237
Prelude to Disaster 252
Programmed by God 280
Divine Intervention 303
Dissension Within the Ranks 327
Home Away From Home 351
It’s a Draw! 368
Let Me Suggest the Unthinkable 380
The End Game 407
Gentlemen’s Agreement 408
I’m Ready to Go 418
The Game Score 427
As Good As God 428
The Final Frontier 438
Quiet Satisfaction 457
As Close to Perfection as Computationally Possible 473
I Know I Can’t Lose 488
Past and Present 508
The Game Players 511
Sluicing for Gold by Robert Lake 512
A Long Journey by Paul Lu 517
Recollections and Reflections by Norman Treloar 519
Personal Recollections by Martin Bryant 524
Solving the Problem of a Checkers Solving Program by Neil Burch 528
Checkered Past by Rebecca Schaeffer 531
Checkered Out by Steph Schaeffer 534
The Game Stats 537
Appendix A: Further Reading 538
Appendix B: Tinsley’s Record 541
Appendix C: CHINOOK’s Record 544
Appendix D: CHINOOK Technical Specifications 545
Appendix E: Tinsley– CHINOOK games 547
Appendix F: Proof Statistics 559
Index 561
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.12.2008 |
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Zusatzinfo | XX, 585 p. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | Chinook • Computer • computer checkers • Intelligence • Marion Tinsley • Martin Bryant • Neil Burch • Norman Treloar • Paul Lu • perfecting checkers • Performance • reflection • Robert Lake • software development • Statistics |
ISBN-10 | 0-387-76576-X / 038776576X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-76576-1 / 9780387765761 |
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