Gil+Dodgen

was an American musician, [|classical] [|pianist], self-taught Checkers programmer, aerospace software engineer and [|affiliate] of the [|Evolutionary Informatics Lab]. He received Bachelor degrees in [|music] and [|French] and a Master degree in French from [|Washington State University]. His program [|Checkers!] won Silver at the 1st Computer Olympiad, London 1989 and its successor //Checkers Experimental// was rated sixth in the world in 1992 behind [|Marion Tinsley] at number one, and [|Chinook] by Jonathan Schaeffer et al. at number two. Along with Ed Trice, he worked on 7-Piece Checkers win/loss/draw databases for perfect play, as introduced at the Advances in Computer Games 10 conference, [|Graz] 2003, incorporated in their program //World Championship Checkers// , and also used to verify Chinook's endgame databases. Gil Dodgen died on [|pulmonary embolism] on April 24, 2016. || toc =Selected Publications=
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 * [[image:GilDodgen.jpg link="http://dnews.com/obituaries/obituary-gil-dodgen-formerly-of-pullman/article_7aa9f591-e1f8-59c5-8721-c3a91655134e.html"]] ||~ || **Gilbert Keddie (Gil) Dodgen**, (December 29, 1950 - April 24, 2016 )
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 * Ed Trice, Gil Dodgen (**2003**). //The 7-Piece Perfect Play Lookup Database for the Game of Checkers//. Advances in Computer Games 10
 * Ed Trice, Gil Dodgen (**2003**). //[|The Perfect 7-Piece Checkers Database]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4

=External Links=
 * [|Obituary: Gil Dodgen, 65, formerly of Pullman | Obituaries], [|Moscow-Pullman Daily News], May 7, 2016
 * [|Gil Dodgen's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|The WCC Story] by Gil Dodgen
 * [|World Championship Checkers]
 * [|A Tribute to Gil Dodgen] by Ed Trice, August 10, 2016

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