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(Message started by: GorgeTranche on Jan 13^th, 2014, 2:42am)

Title: Late Introduction
Post by GorgeTranche on Jan 13^th, 2014, 2:42am

A good morning community,

Its pretty late now for an introduction, but better late then never.

So, I've heard first of Arimaa at the beginning of september last year when I was looking out on what subject to write my bachelor thesis. After reading and playing a few first games I was hooked :D

So right after I went seeing my prof and telling him, I wanted to write a bot and do some research about the subject of Arimaa.

In the moment I just got like 2-3 weeks left of the mentioned thesis and working hard on the bot and (most annoyingly) the writing part of it.

Since the game never got even slightly boring or less interesting, I am quite sure to not abandon the game or the bot-development ;D

For the bot part ... I will introduce him separately. Its my first bot and the first time I ever worked or even crossed the subject of artificial intelligence or games similar to Arimaa.
So please don't expect a very strong playing bot ;)
His name is bot_Yeti and it played (and lost^^) his first game this morning over the gameroom.

If someone has some advice, questions, ideas or similar, please feel free :)

I am looking forward to playing a lot more in the future and attending some championships later on as well 8)

Thanks,
Maurice

Title: Re: Late Introduction
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 13^th, 2014, 1:20pm

on 01/13/14 at 02:42:25, GorgeTranche wrote:

Since the game never got even slightly boring or less interesting[...]

I hope and expect you will still be able to say this a decade later, as I can after learning about Arimaa in 2004. The most amazing story of Arimaa in my opinion has nothing to do with AI, but rather with the fact that none of us can master a completely deterministic game. Arimaa stays fresh and exciting despite our best efforts to figure it out.