English draughts
English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side. The ...
program by Murray Cash. Today Nemesis is no longer commercially available; development stopped years ago.
Nemesis was the strongest program in 2002, when it won the British computer championship against Wyllie, a 16-game match ending +5 =11 in favor of Nemesis and the Computer Checkers World Championship played out in Las Vegas.
The World Championship was a tournament featuring Nemesis, Cake and
KingsRow
KingsRow is a strong checkers and draughts engine. It was released by Ed Gilbert in 2000.
The checkers engine can be used with the CheckerBoard GUI. The engine is available as freeware.
History
In the only Computer Checkers World Championship, K ...
. Each program played each of the others 24 times. The final scores were:
#Nemesis 24.5 points (+1 =47 -0, 1 win against Cake)
#KingsRow 24 points (+1 =46 -1, 1 win and 1 loss against Cake)
#Cake 23.5 Points (+1 =45 -2, 1 win against KingsRow, 1 loss each against Nemesis and Kingsrow)
Nemesis used its own 8-piece
endgame tablebase
An endgame tablebase is a computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of chess endgame positions. It is typically used by a computer chess engine during play, or by a human or computer that is retrospectively analysin ...