[Edratman]

To further buttress this line of thought, two weeks ago there was significent ballyhoo that someone developed a computer that was absolutely unbeatable (could not lose, worse case is a draw) in checkers. It only took them two decades. I may be wrong, but checkers seems to be a lot simplier than Dominons.

As an aside, in the same articles, there was a sidebar story about a chap who was the long time target of the checker playing computers. This chap held the world checker title for 40 years, never lost a match and only lost 9 games in 40 years, counting computer opponents.

No matter what your opinion of checkers is, that is a gaming accomplishment of the ultimate magnitude. Maybe the dev's should name a god after him?