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How Checkers Was Solved

“For Tinsley, the spiritualist, the metaphor of checkers as a well without end was both poetic and true. But Schaeffer, the engineer, knew that no well is bottomless. And humans will always sound the depth.” #link

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You were reading The Atlantic: How Checkers Was Solved, a link posted with comment by MacDara Conroy. It’s filed under Aux and was published in October 2017. If you liked what you read here, you can follow this site via its web feed, and find many more entries in the archive. You can also buy me a Ko-fi.