My brother and I would tie checkers every time if we were paying attention.
It’s basically like ticktacktoe. You have to be unaware of like 3 moves to lose.
Edit: Oh I guess when all pieces are stuck the last player with a move wins? We never knew that and would just call it a draw and play a different game instead.
I’m not a checkers player but really strong players do win games against each other. Also it was 8x8 checkers that was solved. Human competitive play is sometimes 10x10 which is probably beyond current technology to solve the same way. Tinsley played 8x8 though.
Yeah TIL in order not to be stuck moving your last piece before the other player, you need to make a smart sacrifice then force the other player into running out of moves or pieces first.
My brother and I would tie checkers every time if we were paying attention.
It’s basically like ticktacktoe. You have to be unaware of like 3 moves to lose.
Edit: Oh I guess when all pieces are stuck the last player with a move wins? We never knew that and would just call it a draw and play a different game instead.
I’m not a checkers player but really strong players do win games against each other. Also it was 8x8 checkers that was solved. Human competitive play is sometimes 10x10 which is probably beyond current technology to solve the same way. Tinsley played 8x8 though.
Yeah TIL in order not to be stuck moving your last piece before the other player, you need to make a smart sacrifice then force the other player into running out of moves or pieces first.