The Arimaa Challenge rules for selecting the program for the challenge states:
The two programs which finished first and second in the Arimaa Computer Championship will compete for the right to play in the Arimaa challenge match. The two programs will be made available online for humans to play against for a duration of at least two weeks and not more than four weeks. Any human player that wants to play against the programs must play both programs equally in terms of number of times and color. A human player must not play more than two times against either program and no more than one time with the same color. Thus, if a human player plays program A as gold, the player must then play program B as gold. The program which has a better record after the screening period will go on to play in the challenge match. In case of a tie the program which won the computer championship will go on to play in the challenge match. The games will be played using the same time control as the computer championship.
Click the link below to play against:
bot_sharp or bot_ziltoid
Play Bot (it may take a minute for the bot to start; please be patient)
The bot to play against will automatically be selected.
Remember that if you play one bot, then you must also play the other bot.
If you cannot play both bots then you should not play either one.
Also remember that the time control for the game is:
2/6/100/0/8/6 (basically 2 minutes per move).
These bots will be available to play starting:
Mar 9 01:00:00 UTC 2014 and up to:
Mar 31 23:59:00 UTC 2014
a game must begin within this time frame to be counted.
Current time is: Wed Apr 24 23:06:47 2024 GMT (reload page to update the time)The results can be viewed here: Bot Scores