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a Canadian computer scientist and information technology planning and forecasting officer at the University of Alberta. As member if the [|Chinook] team, he was involved in constructing the 8-piece Checkers endgame database.
 * Robert (Rob) Lake**,

=Photos= Front: Paul Lu, Jonathan Schaeffer, Steve Sutphen ||
 * [[image:group_photo_cropped.JPG width="480" height="338" link="http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Echinook/authors/"]] ||
 * Chinook team:: Back: Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Rob Lake, Joe Culberson

=Selected Publications=

1993 ...
> Jonathan Schaeffer, Norman Treloar, Paul Lu, Rob Lake (**1993**). //Man Versus Machine for the World Checkers Championship//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Norman Treloar, Paul Lu, Rob Lake (**1993**). //[|Man Versus Machine for the World Checkers Championship]//. [|AI Magazine], Vol. 14, No. 2 » WCCC 1992 - Workshop
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron, Rob Lake (**1993**). //A Re-examination of Brute-force Search//. Intelligent Games: Planning and Learning. (AAAI 1993 Report FS9302, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium, eds. S. Epstein and R. Levinson), pp. 51-58, AAAI Press, [|pdf]
 * Robert Lake, Jonathan Schaeffer, Paul Lu (**1993**). //Solving Large Retrograde Analysis Problems Using a Network of Workstations//. TR93-13, [|ps]
 * Robert Lake, Jonathan Schaeffer, Paul Lu (**1994**). //Solving Large Retrograde Analysis Problems Using a Network of Workstations//. Advances in Computer Chess 7
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Rob Lake (**1996**). //Solving the Game of Checkers//. [|Games of No Chance] edited by Richard J. Nowakowski, [|pdf]
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant (**1996**). //Chinook: The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion//. AI Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 1

2000 ...

 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2003**). //Building the Checkers 10-Piece Endgame Databases.// Advances in Computer Games 10. [|pdf]
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2005**). //Solving Checkers//. IJCAI 2005
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch, Yngvi Björnsson, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2007**). //[|Checkers is Solved]//. [|Science], Vol. 317, no. 5844

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Silicon Graphics World Checkers Championship] by Robert Lake, rgc, August 16, 1994

=External Links=
 * [|Rob Lake - Homepage]
 * [|Rob Lake's Cam]

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