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Why perfect checkers always ends in a draw

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Your grandfather isn't a strategic genius; the game is just mathematically exhausted. In 2007, researchers finally solved the entire permutations of standard checkers, unequivocally proving that if both players make the optimal moves, the game will inherently end in a paralyzing, unbreakable draw.

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