Checkers System Tal - new release

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Checkers System Tal - new release

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Checkers System Tal
An engine for English draughts (US checkers) for Windows PCs. It plays inside CheckerBoard, Martin Fierz's free program for checkers engines. It is free and open source, under the Apache 2.0 licence.
https://whittingtonchess.com/checkers-system-tal
https://github.com/Chris-Whittington-Ch ... System-Tal

Book, search, tables: how a checkers engine plays, and how far the middle has shrunk
English draughts - checkers, on the 8x8 board, 12 men a side - is the largest popular game to have been solved. Since 2007 it has been known that perfect play from the start is a draw. That has not made the engines uninteresting. It has made them a study in something else: how a program gets from a position it has memorised to a position it can look up, and how little thinking there is left in between .......
https://github.com/Chris-Whittington-Ch ... ENGINES.md