WAITS: Arthur Samuel's Checkers

Although chess was a popular target, one of the earliest examples of using classical pre-LLM artificial intelligence to play games was checkers/draughts. Arthur Samuel wrote one of the first such programs in the early 1950s, ported this to the PDP-10 when he moved to SAIL and even created a version for a home computer in the late 1970s. In this post we'll look at Samuel's work on checkers and run…