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Abstract strategy game
An abstract strategy game is a strategy game that does not rely on a theme.
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Alex Moiseyev
Alexander Moiseyev (born February 19, 1959 in Moscow) is a Soviet-born American draughts player.
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Alfred Jordan (draughts player)
Alfred Jordan (died May 8, 1926) was an English draughts or checkers player originally from England who was WCDF champion from 1912 to 1917.
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Alquerque
Alquerque (also known as Qirkat) is a strategy board game that is thought to have originated in the Middle East.
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Amangul Berdieva
Amangul Berdieva (married name since 2011, born Amangul Durdyeva) is an English draughts and International draughts champion from Turkmenistan.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Andrew Anderson (draughts)
Andrew Anderson (died March 1, 1861) was a champion draught-player from Scotland.
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Arthur Samuel
Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 – July 29, 1990) was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.
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Asa Long
Asa Long (19041999) was an American checkers player, winner of multiple US Championships, spanning more than sixty years, and a one-time World Champion.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Board game
A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Checkerboard
A checkerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English; see spelling differences) is a board of chequered pattern on which English draughts (checkers) is played.
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Chinook (draughts player)
Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts).
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Christopher Strachey
Christopher S. Strachey (16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist.
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Computer program
A computer program is a collection of instructions for performing a specific task that is designed to solve a specific class of problems.
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Cylinder
A cylinder (from Greek κύλινδρος – kulindros, "roller, tumbler"), has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes.
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Derek Oldbury
Derek Oldbury (1924 - July, 1994) (often known as DEO) was a British draughts champion from Devon.
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Desktop computer
A desktop computer is a personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or near a desk or table due to its size and power requirements.
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Don Lafferty
Don Lafferty (1933–1998) was a Grandmaster checkers (British English: draughts) player.
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Draughts
Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.
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Draughts World Championship
The Draughts World Championship is the world championship in international draughts and is held every two years.
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EXPTIME
In computational complexity theory, the complexity class EXPTIME (sometimes called EXP or DEXPTIME) is the set of all decision problems that have exponential runtime, i.e., that are solvable by a deterministic Turing machine in O(2p(n)) time, where p(n) is a polynomial function of n. In terms of DTIME, We know and also, by the time hierarchy theorem and the space hierarchy theorem, that so at least one of the first three inclusions and at least one of the last three inclusions must be proper, but it is not known which ones are.
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Game complexity
Combinatorial game theory has several ways of measuring game complexity.
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Generalized game
In computational complexity theory, a generalized game is a game or puzzle that has been generalized so that it can be played on a board or grid of any size.
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High Jump (game)
High Jump is a two-player strategy board game from Somalia.
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Huff (board games)
Huffing is a rule used in some board games, such as Alquerque, Asalto and traditional and informal English draughts (checkers).
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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International draughts
International draughts (also called Polish draughts or international checkers) is a strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts.
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James Ferrie
James Ferrie (born 1857; died 1929) was a Scottish checkers or English draughts player of Irish descent.
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James Wyllie
James Wyllie (born 8 July 1818 in Edinburgh; died 5 April 1899) was a Scottish draughts player who is important to the history of the game.
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Jonathan Schaeffer
Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer (born on 1957) is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence.
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KingsRow
KingsRow is a strong checkers and draughts engine.
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Konane
Kōnane is a two-player strategy board game from Hawaii.
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List of draughts players
List of draughts players is concerned with the leading or champion figures in the history of various forms of draughts.
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List of world championships in mind sports
This page gives a list of world championships in mind sports which usually represent the most prestigious competition for a specific board game, card game or mind sport.
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List winners of Czech Republic championship in English draughts
List winners of Czech Republic championship in English draughts.
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Manchester Mark 1
The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester from the Manchester Baby (operational in June 1948).
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Marion Tinsley
Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player.
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Michele Borghetti
Michele Borghetti (born 13 March 1973 in Livorno) is an Italian grandmaster of international draughts, Italian draughts and English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers").
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National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory for the United Kingdom, based at Bushy Park in Teddington, London, England.
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Newell W. Banks
Newell Williams Banks (October 10, 1887 – February 17, 1977) was an American checkers and chess player.
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Patricia Breen (draughts player)
Patricia Breen (born April 23, 1976 in Bennekerry, Carlow, Ireland) is an Irish draughts player and among the leading women in the game.
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Pilot ACE
The Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the early 1950s.
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Robert D. Yates
Robert D. Yates (December 27, 1857 in Brooklyn; September 19, 1885) was an American draughts champion and medical doctor.
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Robert Martins
Robert Martins (born in Penryn, Cornwall on 26 February 1822; died 1904) was a British draughts player who was World Checkers/Draughts Champion from 1859 to 1864.
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Robert Stewart (draughts player)
Robert Stewart (born 1873; died in Scotland on 11 August 1941) was a British champion of English draughts from Scotland.
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Ron King
Ron "Suki" King (born 1956) is a checkers player from Saint George, Barbados.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Solved game
A solved game is a game whose outcome (win, lose or draw) can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly.
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Strategy game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game (e.g. video or board game) in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome.
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Tanzanian draughts
Tanzanian draughts (or simply TZ draughts; and drafti in Swahili) is a variant of draughts (checkers) board game played usually in Tanzania.
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Tie (draw)
A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive.
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Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan (or; Türkmenistan), (formerly known as Turkmenia) is a sovereign state in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west.
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Ukraine
Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.
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University of Alberta
The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Walter Hellman
Walter F. Hellman (June 15, 1916 – July 28, 1975) was the longest reigning world American checkers champion.
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World Checkers/Draughts Championship
The World Checkers/Draughts Championship is the tournament of English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers") which determines the world champion.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_draughts
