One of the winners of the 2017 Brain Prize reveals the 1955 computer program that helped transform our understanding of the human brain In 1955, American computer pioneer Arthur Samuel unveiled a ...

The perfect game of draughts ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists report. Researchers at the University of Alberta say they have 'solved' draughts, the 5000-year-old board game. Their computer ...

It could be a case of game over for draughts - scientists say the ancient board game has finally been solved. A Canadian team has created a computer program that can win or draw any game, no matter ...

It has taken more than 18 years, and hundreds of computers to crunch numbers through the night, but yesterday Jonathan Schaefer declared his job done: he had written the world's first program that was ...

Played on a standard chessboard of 64 chequered squares, draughts is growing from a domestic to a national competitive game. Although a long-standing past time for many, the game of 'dame', as it is ...

TIANJIN - It was Wang Run's first time to board a bullet train as the boy from rural area was going to one of China's biggest metropolitan Tianjin to play draughts at the country's 13th National Games ...