International Draughts - Computers

Computers

Computer draughts programs have been improving every year. Programmers wrote the first draughts programs in the mid 1970s. The first computer draughts tournament was in 1987. In 1993, computer draughts program Truus ranked about 40th in the world. In 2003 computer Draughts program Buggy beat world number 8 Samb. In 2005, the 10-time world champion and 2005 World champion, Alexei Chizhov, commented about computers. Chizhov said he could not beat the computer, but he also would not lose to the computer. In 2010, the 9 piece endgame database was built.