Schaeffer One Jump Ahead

Computer Perfection at Checkers
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-387-76576-1
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 585 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaeffer, Jonathan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Acknowledgments;8
3;Preface (1997);9
4;Acknowledgments (1997);12
5;Contents;14
6;I Feel I Can’t Lose;17
7;The Opening Game;19
7.1;This Was Going To Be Easy;20
7.2;Bottomless Well;39
8;The Middle Game;48
8.1;Valuable Lessons;49
8.2;The Illusion of Intelligence;67
8.3;A Nobel Turing Trio;84
8.4;Didn’t Samuel Solve That Game?;97
8.5;The Case for the Prosecution;108
8.6;As Close to Perfection As Humanly Possible;131
8.7;You Look Like a Checkers Player;138
8.8;The Fudge Factor;150
8.9;I Feel Like a Teenager Again;176
8.10;Gentlemen, Start Your Engines;204
8.11;Trust Me;229
8.12;A Wake-Up Call;237
8.13;Prelude to Disaster;252
8.14;Programmed by God;280
8.15;Divine Intervention;303
8.16;Dissension Within the Ranks;327
8.17;Home Away From Home;351
8.18;It’s a Draw!;368
8.19;Let Me Suggest the Unthinkable;380
9;The End Game;407
9.1;Gentlemen’s Agreement;408
9.2;I’m Ready to Go;418
10;The Game Score;427
10.1;As Good As God;428
10.2;The Final Frontier;438
10.3;Quiet Satisfaction;457
10.4;As Close to Perfection as Computationally Possible;473
10.5;I Know I Can’t Lose;488
10.6;Past and Present;508
11;The Game Players;511
11.1;Sluicing for Gold by Robert Lake;512
11.2;A Long Journey by Paul Lu;517
11.3;Recollections and Reflections by Norman Treloar;519
11.4;Personal Recollections by Martin Bryant;524
11.5;Solving the Problem of a Checkers Solving Program by Neil Burch;528
11.6;Checkered Past by Rebecca Schaeffer;531
11.7;Checkered Out by Steph Schaeffer;534
12;The Game Stats;537
12.1;Appendix A: Further Reading;538
12.2;Appendix B: Tinsley’s Record;541
12.3;Appendix C: CHINOOK’s Record;544
12.4;Appendix D: CHINOOK Technical Specifications;545
12.5;Appendix E: Tinsley– CHINOOK games;547
12.6;Appendix F: Proof Statistics;559
13;Index;561