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The 1990 Mississippi State Checkers Championship and the U.S. National Checkers Championship were held back-to-back in Tupelo, Mississippi, August 11–18. With forty-six games crammed into eight days, it promised to be a crash course in finding out how Chinook would fare against strong opposition.
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“...at the age of thirty he disappeared on a trip from Miami to Boston and was never heard of again.” Anthony Bishop, The Encyclopedia of Checkers, privately published, 1978, available from the ACF.
I know of only one occasion where Hallett agreed to be photographed. In 1992 he played a world championship match with Derek Oldbury. One of the match conditions was that he agreed to be photographed.
Mips is an acronym for “millions of instructions per second,” one measure of how fast a computer is. Today some parallel computers can execute billions of instructions in a second.
Not so, as I was later to find out. See the start of Chapter 11.
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Schaeffer, J. (1997). You Look Like a Checkers Player. In: One Jump Ahead. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2733-3_10
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