After 18 years of calculations by dozens (sometimes hundreds) of computers, the game of checkers has been solved. This means computers can now beat or draw any human (or computer). If two players play perfectly then the result will be a draw. Neither red nor black has a move that can force a win. The only way to win is for a player to make a
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This is a brilliant idea. Everyone has probably run into a CAPTCHA by now. They are those boxes of distorted text that you have to type into some sits to prove that you are a not a screen-scraping program. The reCAPTCHA project is harnessing that action to OCR books in the Internet Archive