The Literature of Checkers
Author: William Timothy Call
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
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One Jump Ahead
Author: Jonathan Schaeffer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-12-16
Total Pages: 571
ISBN-13: 038776576X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’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.
Generating Hardware Assertion Checkers
Author: Marc Boulé
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1402085869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssertion-based design is a powerful new paradigm that is facilitating quality improvement in electronic design. Assertions are statements used to describe properties of the design (I.e., design intent), that can be included to actively check correctness throughout the design cycle and even the lifecycle of the product. With the appearance of two new languages, PSL and SVA, assertions have already started to improve verification quality and productivity. This is the first book that presents an “under-the-hood” view of generating assertion checkers, and as such provides a unique and consistent perspective on employing assertions in major areas, such as: specification, verification, debugging, on-line monitoring and design quality improvement.
Complete Checkers
Author: Richard Pask
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 9781542464369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComplete Checkers is the definitive guide to 3-move ballot checkers, a reference for the 21st century and beyond. Grandmaster Richard Pask has combined the wisdom of the great past masters with his own deep insights, supported by modern computer tools. The result is an authoritative guide that every serious checker player will want to own.
24 Games You Can Play on a Checker Board
Author: Carol Lynch Williams
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781423600114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDirections for twenty-four games that can be played on a checkerboard.
Win at Checkers
Author: Millard Hopper
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0486137279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImprove your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.
One Jump Ahead
Author: Jonathan Schaeffer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 147572733X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extraordinary book tells of the creation of the world-class checkers computer program, Chinook. From its beginnings in 1988, Chinook became a worthy opponent to the world champion and by 1992 had defeated all the worlds top human players. In his fascinating account, Jonathan Schaeffer, the originator and leader of the Chinook team, provides an engrossing story of failures and successes. He describes the human story behind Chinook and his own feelings in his continuous effort to improve the programs performance. We follow the development of Chinook from an innocent question asked over lunch, through to the final match against the then world champion, Marion Tinsley. As the story unfolds, readers are introduced to the rules of checkers and the basics of computer game programs, as well as to the key figures in the story. The culmination of this new edition expounds upon checker finally perfected and solved by Chinook ten years after the story was originally told.
Back Checker Strategy
Author: Michihito Kageyama
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781733907514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBack Checker Strategy, the third book in the Backgammon Odyssey Series, categorizes back checker formation into five stages. We then learn how to handle them and whether to play safely or boldly on our side.
Polluted Promises
Author: Melissa Checker
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005-08
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 081471658X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKU.S. intervention in the Philippines began with the little-known 1899 Philippine-American War. Using the war as its departure point in analyzing U.S.—Philippine relations, Vestiges of War retrieves this willfully forgotten event and places it where it properly belongs—as the catalyst that led to increasing U.S. interventionism and expansionism in the Asia Pacific region. This seminal, multidisciplinary anthology examines the official American nationalist story of "benevolent assimilation" and fraternal tutelage in its half century of colonial occupation of the Philippines. Integrating critical and visual art essays, archival and contemporary photographs, dramatic plays, and poetry to address the complex Philippine and U.S. perspectives and experiences, the essayists compellingly recount the consequences of American colonialism in the Philippines. Vestiges of War will force readers to reshape their views on what has been a deliberately obscure but significant phase in the histories of both countries, one which continues to haunt the present. Contributors: Genara Banzon, Santiago Bose, Ben Cabrera, Renato Constantino, Doreen Fernandez, Eric Gamalinda, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jessica Hagedorn, Reynaldo Ileto, Yong Soon Min, Manuel Ocampo, Paul Pfeiffer, Christina Quisumbing, Vicente Rafael, Daniel Boone Schirmer, Kidlat Tahimik, Mark Twain, and Jim Zwick.
