[checkers] perfect solution found

Most important issue of the day:

According to US journal Science, the perfect solution to how to play checkers (draughts) without losing is one of the ten most interesting discoveries of 2007. Dr. Yngvi Björnsson at Reykjavík University is one of its discoverers.

“It is very pleasing, but this recognition may not have much impact,” Björnsson, who discovered the checkers-solution with a team of Canadian scientists, told Fréttabladid. “It is, in fact, a greater recognition that the article about the discovery was published in the journal last summer […]; one of the most respected scientific journals in the world.”

Now, in this holiday season, that's the best news yet for the kids wiling away the hours. Trouble is, they didn't provide the solution for me to post. You'll have to buy the journal.