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Robert (Rob) Lake,
a Canadian computer scientist and information technology planning and forecasting officer at the University of Alberta ^[1]. As member if the Chinook team, he was involved in constructing the 8-piece Checkers endgame database ^[2].

Photos

Chinook team:: Back: Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Rob Lake, Joe Culberson Front: Paul Lu, Jonathan Schaeffer, Steve Sutphen [3]

Selected Publications

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1993 ...

• 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 ^[5]
  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, 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

References

1. ^ Rob Lake - Information Technology Planning and Forecasting Officer
2. ^ Authors - Chinook - World Man-Machine Checkers Champion
3. ^ Authors - Chinook - World Man-Machine Checkers Champion
4. ^ Rob Lake - Publications
5. ^ Marion Tinsley vs. Chinook - Wikipedia

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