P.J. Plauger wrote of a co-worker who got a condition wrong for a checkers-playing program, so that it could be beaten by novices, including small children. The

P.J. Plauger wrote of a co-worker who got a condition wrong for a checkers-playing program, so that it could be beaten by novices, including small children. The programmer also neglected to program it for the possibility of loss, so that at some point it would flood the board with newly created checkers. Plauger said, If you think the kids enjoyed beating the program, you should have seen how much they enjoyed making it cheat.