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Jonathan Schaeffer and Duplicate Poker

June 3, 2008

I was scouring the web for interesting Poker news (that’s what I do for living these days) and I bumped into a familiar name. There’s a Man vs Machine Poker Championship coming, where two human Poker pros will play against Polaris, a Poker computer program. In the end of the article I read, they interview [...]

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One Jump Ahead

January 17, 2005

I finished reading One Jump Ahead : Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers, which was rather interesting book. It’s written by Jonathan Schaeffer, who designed Chinook, the first computer program to win a human world championship. Chinook played Checkers, a traditional and intriguing game that hides in the shadow of Chess. The book is also about [...]

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