As I already mentioned yesterday, Kingscourt checkers (first side to make a king wins) cannot be a draw, unlike regular checkers or losing checkers. But which is it? Make your guess now, I will answer the question in a future post!
The game of Hex also can not be drawn.Here you offer to find a "theoretical value" of Kingscourt.In my opinion here a special version of Cake is needed with option "search for win" as in the game four in a row.Apparently the entire game can not be too long and such a version of Cake has to find solution in a reasonable amount of time.Maybe it (solution) depends from board size 8x8,10x10 etc? Maybe side which begins has an advantage ? This question is worth another Martin - Martin Gardner.
Martin is a Swiss physicist and former Swiss junior chess champion. He is the author of Checkerboard, a popular free checkers interface, and of Cake, one of the world's finest checkers engines. His simple checkers engine powers three different iPhone apps by independent developers. Last but not least, he is the author of a checkers app for the Android platform. When not programming checkers, he develops aerosol instrumentation, and spends a lot of his free time in the Swiss alps.
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The game of Hex also can not
be drawn.Here you offer to find
a "theoretical value" of Kingscourt.In my opinion here a
special version of Cake is needed
with option "search for win" as
in the game four in a row.Apparently
the entire game can not be too long and such a version of Cake has to find solution in a reasonable
amount of time.Maybe it (solution) depends from board size 8x8,10x10 etc? Maybe side which begins has
an advantage ? This question is
worth another Martin - Martin Gardner.
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