Alright, here goes: I want to code a game, and I've decided on Checkers. I don't need any fancy GUI or anything (yet), all I want is suggestions on how you, the reader, would go about this.<BR><BR ...

The brute-force calculation underlying the new program was conceptually simple but logistically demanding, because checkers has approximately 500 billion billion (5 x 10 20) possible positions ...

Prof. Schaeffer said people often consider the game - which uses 12 red and black pieces called checkers - simple because it is easy to learn the rules. "It took me less than a minute to teach it ...