One jump ahead

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1. lpolovetsJul 2022
   Jonathan Schaeffer, who led programming on Chinook, wrote a book about the history of Chinook, the matches with Marion Tinsley, and checkers in general. I read it a while back and thought it was excellent, although it seems like cheap book editions are hard to find now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Jump-Ahead-Computer-Perfection-eb...
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2. aaronmcsJul 2022
   There is a great book that the main author of Chinook wrote about this. It's called One Jump Ahead[0] and it is a great combination of technical info about the development of Chinook as well as a kind of mini-history of competitive checkers. Strongly recommend!

   [0] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-76576-1

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3. jhbadgerJul 2022
   If you like that you might like Jonathan Schaeffer's (the creator of Chinook) book "One Jump Ahead" in which he discusses Chinook and Tinsley in great detail.
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4. bediger4000Jul 2022
   Article is paywalled, but the book "One Jump Ahead", by Jonathan Schaeffer is a good account by one of the participants. Schaeffer is an academic, so the writing isn't stellar, but he's serviceable and the story is good. I see there's a revised edition
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5. vibloJul 2017
   If you like this story I suggest you take a look at the book "One Jump Ahead" by Schaeffer for a lot more in depth view!
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6. dargopolisJul 2017
   Having read Jonathan Schaeffer’s great book One Jump Ahead, I couldn’t help feeling that this article was a (well-written) book report which just barely mentions its primary source. Nice summary, but read the original. I haven’t read the second edition which apparently includes the follow-up story of solving the game, but I found the first edition very compelling. I wonder if the reporter was following the recent Deepmind/U of Alberta news and then came across the checkers story. Disclaimer: I was in Jonathan’s compiler course 30 years ago, prior to Chinook.
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