Nemesis (draughts player)


Nemesis is an English draughts program by Murray Cash. Today Nemesis is no longer commercially available; development stopped years ago.
Nemesis was the strongest program in 2002, when it won the British computer championship against Wyllie, a 16-game match ending +5 =11 in favor of Nemesis and the Computer Checkers World Championship played out in Las Vegas.
The World Championship was a tournament featuring Nemesis, Cake and KingsRow. Each program played each of the others 24 times. The final scores were:
  1. Nemesis 24.5 points
  2. KingsRow 24 points
  3. Cake 23.5 Points
Nemesis used its own 8-piece endgame tablebase.