The program has moved up to the fourth-highest ranking, Class A, for checkers players.

He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs.

The neural networks that Dr. Fogel has bred into checkers players exist as software programs on his personal computer.

But Mr. Lurie is more then just the world's strongest checkers player.

During his studies, Livestro was an active checkers player, and became national students' champion in 1994.

The Bronx Comet (1907-1954) was an American checkers player who won national titles in both 1939 and 1946.

Marion Tinsley (February 3, 1927 - April 3, 1995) is considered the greatest checkers player who ever lived.

Pierre Ghestem (born February 14, 1922 - died on April 11, 2000) was a French bridge and checkers player.

He was widely known among the most accomplished checkers players in America.

This convention was devised by the French bridge and checkers player Pierre Ghestem.