Hmm. I think that the future in computer in games is localised in machine learning. I think that it is too hard to measure precisely how arbitrary move will change the strengths. One different postiion of one figure can turn move which is at 1000 situations very good move into a very bad move. I think that chess are too complex to even write such equations, not saying about implementating them. Machine learning computers win in Chess, in Go, in Starcraft 2 easily with human. This is the future I think.
Maybe for checkers it would be possible, but it wouldnt be worth to do it I think.