Comments on: Calling Out the Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

By: SJ

SJ — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:55:32 +0000

That sucks man… so eww.

Nah, I’ve never played checkers hardcore-ish, but b/cuz I like playing chess brute force-thinking was easy.

My main point is that while checkers has less moves, each move has greater consequences due to the “forceful” nature of the real game.

It has actually been solved iirc. So removing the memory aspect then moves require a larger forward search =)

It’s just a random bit of trivia =)

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By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:37:28 +0000

Maybe I should have given names, but rest assured, they’re real. What strikes me as so [beep] odd, and the reason why I wrote the post, was to show just how frugal people can be to try to save money, but somehow lose site of the bigger picture.

To me, Checkers is a game where you have to think ahead, but the game itself doesn’t require that many forward thinking steps and the possible moves are greatly restricted by the pieces themselves. In Chess, there are far more permutations the game can take.

By: SJ

SJ — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:29:04 +0000

I don’t like this post because I can’t believe any of the 7 to exist =)

Well… maybe #1… and #2… and… #3-4… 5 sounds common… i know people who do 6…and yea 7 seems reasonable.
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Man people..

So I do have one minor complaint… I think checkers actually requires more forward thinking (when you play with the real rules) because of being forced to take. That is, any one move can have more massive swing than any one move in chess. Of course I’ve never played checkers competitively but this is just my basic understanding of the game =)