Last month, I blogged about Relatively Prime, a beautifully produced, crowdfunded free series of math podcasts. I just listened to the episode on Chinook (MP3), the program that became the world champion of checkers. Chinook’s story is a bittersweet and moving tale, a modern account of John Henry and the steam-drill, though this version is

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Chinook: the story of the computer that beat checkers

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