help bot wrote:

I am wondering whether they really "solved" the
game or, as the chosen language suggests, they
merely succeeded in never losing in practice.


The last report I read said that checkers has been "weakly solved".
Positions with 10 checkers or fewer are completely solved.

I don't know how to reconcile this with the quote "the initial position
is a draw". I suspect it's a slight mis-quote. I can imagine a claim
that "the program can achieve at least a draw" - but that's not quite
the same thing.


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