Titlebook: One Jump Ahead; Challenging Human Su Jonathan Schaeffer Book 19971st edition Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997 Ahead.computer.c

DIKE

Programmed by God. The very fact that we’re going to play Tinsley for a world championship was historic, but there was a much bigger prize at stake. Could we become the first computer world champion? Yes, that seemed unlikely, but one must be allowed to dream.

圓柱

FOIL

Hypomania

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2733-3Ahead; computer; computer game; development; form; games; layers; learning; performance; story

Neutral-Spine

Trust Meeft unsaid), you’re probably wondering whether I’m even qualified to write a program as sophisticated as Chinook. My programming errors have cost Chinook dearly and, unfortunately, will continue to dog the project. Maybe I’m the wrong person to do the programming; someone with better skills might be able to do a better job.

BALK

CRASS

fledged

This Was Going to Be Easy“Jonathan, what ever happened to computer checkers?”

召集

Valuable LessonsIn the last frantic days before going to the Computer Olympiad, we were able to address the two biggest weaknesses in the program’s play: the openings and endgames. If we didn’t solve these problems the program would be easy prey for any master.

Militia

Didn’t Samuel Solve That Game?The road to constructing the world champion checkers player might have been an easy one to follow, except for a brief moment of human fallibility. That one moment of human weakness would continue to haunt me for years to come.