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(Message started by: omar on May 14th, 2006, 2:14pm)

Title: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by omar on May 14th, 2006, 2:14pm
Use this topic to post a new bot bashing record. This will help everyone become aware of it and a senior member who maintains the bot bashing wiki page can add it to that page.

Please be sure to mention the game number and what record was set.

The Bot Bashing wiki page:

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/twiki/bin/view/Arimaa/BotBashers

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by seanick on May 14th, 2006, 6:43pm
Edited for the following reason: I realize now that the wiki page itself has a "win by immobilization" record that beat mine:

<<...
bot_Clueless2005P2
....
Win by immobilization in fewest moves:
...
as silver: Arimanator in 37 moves view
>>

So... I no longer think that the below is better. but why is the bot basher page not even in sync with itself? Does nobody actually care? I suppose it is understandable, the only reason I did is that I mistakenly thought I might have accomplished something as a result.
Well, that was nice to think for a while, back to working on my losing streak.. How big is the biggest losing streak so far? I see winning streaks listed (for the previous POTM challenges to the current few months), but only as "streak" which is not entirely accurate since it seems only winning streaks are considered :).

Later
NICK

original post follows:
___
OK, I have one:

"Win by immobilization" against Clueless 2005 P2, playing as silver (game 30538 in 48 moves.)

thanks
NICK

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by aaaa on May 14th, 2006, 8:20pm
I don't really expect this to be a record as I did it like any other curious newbie would, but since I don't see it beaten on the wiki:
game 29446: win by annihilation in 43 moves against bot_ArimaaScoreP1 playing silver
Here's another one by somebody else:
game 26898: win by annihilation in 64 moves against bot_Clueless2006P2 playing silver

If one side still has all of his pieces and the other side only has an elephant, can it be forced into "walking the plank" so to speak?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by unic on May 14th, 2006, 8:27pm

Quote:
If one side still has all of his pieces and the other side only has an elephant, can it be forced into "walking the plank" so to speak?

Yes, it can... I did this earlier today against one of the blitz bots.  Game 31554 (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/replayFlash.cgi?gid=31554&s=w&client=1).  (Of course, I could have won by goal much earlier... I wanted to see if I could force the bot to give up its elephant.)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by aaaa on May 14th, 2006, 8:52pm
That was amazing. I salute you, sir.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by arimaa_master on Jul 11th, 2006, 5:41pm
Hi,
I realize that I have 3 games so far that deserve attention concerning the Bot Bashing Record:

33858: bot_Loc2005P1          vs arimaa_master *                                     goal in 9
34560: bot_GnoBot2005Fast vs arimaa_master *         goal in 14
34567: * arimaa_master        vs bot_Aamira2006Fast   goal in 19

Is it true record? Coz I didn´t notice the mention of bot_GnoBot2005Fast and bot_Aamira2006Fast at http://arimaa.com/arimaa/twiki/bin/view/Arimaa/BotBashers site.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by arimaa_master on Jul 11th, 2006, 5:46pm
P.S.: these 3 games are claimed to have record "Win by goal in fewest moves:" There are links for them:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/replayFlash.cgi?gid=33858&s=b&client=1

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/replayFlash.cgi?gid=34560&s=b&client=1

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/replayFlash.cgi?gid=34567&s=w&client=1

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Jul 11th, 2006, 8:20pm
Oh, sorry, I already answered in the comments of the games.  The first one is a clear record, the second is not a record, and the third one is a record, but only for playing Gold because there is a better record for Silver.

I don't really want to be the one to keep the bot-bashing page up to date, because I don't care very much about bot-bashing.  I think we need Omar to give the wiki password to a single person (preferably an avid botbasher) who will agree to update the page with all the records.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by arimaa_master on Jul 12th, 2006, 6:27am
Ok, thx Karl

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by knarl on Jul 19th, 2006, 12:47am
Gday Guys,

I'm sure it's not a record when a game ends on repetition, but I just beat bot_Bomb2005P2 a few times on repetition. Twice in 6 moves (pretty bad when half the moves end in the same position), and once in 9 moves as opposite colour. Is bot_Bomb2005P2 meant to check for repetition? If so, there's a bug.

See games 35117 35118 35119

Cheers,
knarl.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Jun 1st, 2007, 1:05pm
I was looking at the bot-bashing page and noticed that there is a column for no-capture wins.  What does this refer to? Only if none of your own pieces are captured or both yours and your opponents?

In game 49647, I beat Gnobot2005p2 in 26 moves without either side losing a single piece.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 722caasi on Jun 28th, 2007, 6:11pm
Hi, recently i got win by annihilation in 35 moves against  bot aarimascorep1
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=53272&s=b as gold and also win by immobilization as siver in 23 moves http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=53270&s=b

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 722caasi on Sep 29th, 2007, 1:20pm
Game 72116:
Goal in 8 as silver against loc2005p1

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Sep 29th, 2007, 5:38pm
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=59165

Game 59165

win by immobilization in 21 moves of bot_Clueless2006P2 without the taking of any pieces by either side, playing gold.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Jan Kruschak on Sep 30th, 2007, 3:11am
Games 34169, 57943, 57962, 59403:

Record: Win in 18 moves against Clueless2005P2 by silver.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 722caasi on Oct 1st, 2007, 7:47pm
Game 59885:
Handicap HH as silver, win in 18.
(really weird ending though).

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Recordloc2006
Post by 722caasi on Oct 3rd, 2007, 5:46pm
Game 60033:
loc2006p1 in 16 moves.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 722caasi on Oct 4th, 2007, 5:26pm
Game 60093:
Loc2005p1 as gold in 10.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by tize on Feb 17th, 2008, 3:17am
Game 70803
bot_Aamira_2006P2 in 37 moves

Victory by annihilation without losing any of my pieces.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Feb 17th, 2008, 11:18am
Nicely done, tize!  You have been playing for, what, a week now?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Gerenuk on Mar 9th, 2008, 2:20pm
bot_Loc2006CC lost in 23 moves in Game 71976.
Does that count?

I'm just playing the last level of the bot ladder and it's really frustrating how long the bots need to think  :P

PS: How do I review games that I know the number of?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 9th, 2008, 3:24pm

on 03/09/08 at 14:20:34, Gerenuk wrote:
PS: How do I review games that I know the number of?

To review a game of known number, you can plug the number into this URL:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/showGame.cgi?gid=71976

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 722caasi on Mar 17th, 2008, 11:34pm
Total annihilation of bot_aamira2006p1 in 32 as gold. ;D

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by pallab on Mar 20th, 2008, 8:46pm
bot_amiraa2006P2, game 86519

It is a game where the bot took my rabit to goal!!

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 8:42pm
mistre wrote:

Quote:
I will volunteer to maintain the botbashing page. Please send me a message in the forum with any further data/instructions for doing so.

OK, you got it, mistre.  Thanks for volunteering!

I sent you the wiki password by private message.  (The wiki password is not a secret, but we want to avoid link spam.)  I will post a series of results for you to filter/format as you see fit.  Whenever more than one player achieved the minimum, I listed only the first one to do so, in case others only equaled the result by copying moves.

I suppose records against bots that are no longer available to play are of lower value than records that other people can still try to break.  Also I suppose that records against fixed performance bots (e.g. Bomb2005P1) are of more value than records against variable performance bots (e.g. BombFast) since the latter type of bot is presumably getting tougher to beat every year, unless you catch it at a time of system load when it might be easier.

I personally like quirky records, but there are an infinite number of those, so I don't blame you if you don't want to keep them all, or only keep select ones as examples.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 8:46pm
Fastest win by goal when bot plays Gold:

wusername      busername      id      result      termination      plycount
bot_2xv7      Adanac      22138      b      g      9
bot_Aamira      bot_Arimaanator      20215      b      g      16
bot_Aamira2006Blitz      Gerenuk      71238      b      g      16
bot_Aamira2006CC      paperhero      71161      b      g      13
bot_Aamira2006Fast      Arimanator      63907      b      g      16
bot_Aamira2006P1      mikbuster      69219      b      g      9
bot_Aamira2006P2      bot_GnoBot2006Fast      28737      b      g      11
bot_Arimaalon      BlackKnight      8774      b      g      7
bot_Arimaanator      PMertens      9131      b      g      12
bot_ArimaanatorFast      omar      57419      b      g      15
bot_ArimaaScoreP1      Arimanator      31350      b      g      5
bot_ArimaaScoreP2      bot_Bomb2005P2      29718      b      g      9
bot_ArimaaScoreP3      omar      50536      b      g      16
bot_Arimaazilla      tomcstein      5092      b      g      11
bot_Arimaazon      kamikazeking      11371      b      g      11
bot_bash      bot_Loc2005P1      19054      b      g      10
bot_bomb      Renaissance      413      b      g      16
bot_Bomb2004CC      Fritzlein      15043      b      g      32
bot_Bomb2005Blitz      naveed      17992      b      g      15
bot_Bomb2005CC      Arimanator      18292      b      g      13
bot_Bomb2005Fast      OLTI      58136      b      g      18
bot_Bomb2005P1      camelback      46710      b      g      10
bot_Bomb2005P2      Arimanator      18122      b      g      17
bot_Bomb2005P3      omar      16808      b      g      33
bot_Brain      bot_speedy      1114      b      g      19
bot_clueless      jdb      44739      b      g      13
bot_clueless_test      bot_Aamira      22874      b      g      38
bot_Clueless2005Blitz      Chegorimaa      35238      b      g      17
bot_Clueless2005CC      omar      18529      b      g      22
bot_Clueless2005Fast      Arimanator      19680      b      g      14
bot_Clueless2005P1      aaaa      30310      b      g      12
bot_Clueless2005P2      Calumet45      34169      b      g      18
bot_Clueless2006Blitz      OLTI      26412      b      g      21
bot_Clueless2006CC      omar      31847      b      g      25
bot_Clueless2006Fast      Arimanator      31840      b      g      19
bot_Clueless2006P1      Kruschak      55436      b      g      20
bot_Clueless2006P2      omar      25002      b      g      24
bot_Faerie      bot_clueless      44886      b      g      19
bot_FaerieP1      jaw      44455      b      g      12
bot_FaerieP2      omar      44705      b      g      10
bot_Fairy      bot_ShallowBlue      28776      b      g      12
bot_Fairy_X      DorianGaray      37592      b      g      24
bot_firsttry      bot_ShallowBlue      2558      b      g      11
bot_GnoBot      tomcstein      5089      b      g      15
bot_GnoBot2004CC      BlackKnight      7373      b      g      20
bot_GnoBot2005Blitz      arimaa_master      35029      b      g      8
bot_GnoBot2005CC      bot_Aamira2006CC      31755      b      g      13
bot_GnoBot2005Fast      Fritzlein      12260      b      g      12
bot_GnoBot2005P1      bot_bash      19049      b      g      9
bot_GnoBot2005P2      Soter      53516      b      g      8
bot_GnoBot2006Blitz      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      40367      b      g      18
bot_GnoBot2006CC      Adanac      32462      b      g      24
bot_GnoBot2006Fast      Chegorimaa      33365      b      g      19
bot_GnoBot2006P1      igor      34592      b      g      9
bot_GnoBot2006P2      The_Jeh      44268      b      g      29
bot_haizhi      bot_ShallowBlue      3750      b      g      13
bot_hercules      Soter      68537      b      g      7
bot_hz      bot_haizhi      3388      b      g      18
bot_knt      knt      67241      b      g      13
bot_leapfrog      bot_Occam      3607      b      g      14
bot_lightning      Fritzlein      12661      b      g      24
bot_Loc      bot_clueless      71766      b      g      17
bot_Loc2005Blitz      Swynndla      27969      b      g      16
bot_Loc2005CC      blue22      18051      b      g      16
bot_Loc2005Fast      jarrausi      23727      b      g      23
bot_Loc2005P1      722caasi      59765      b      g      8
bot_Loc2005P2      kerro      62305      b      g      19
bot_Loc2006Blitz      chrismccoll      32100      b      g      23
bot_Loc2006CC      chessandgo      29880      b      g      14
bot_Loc2006Fast      sfx      46425      b      g      27
bot_Loc2006P1      longhornssb      54596      b      g      9
bot_Loc2006P2      Soter      52213      b      g      13
bot_marwin      tize      72216      b      g      12
bot_mouse      robstar      6392      b      g      12
bot_Occam      bot_ShallowBlue      400      b      g      8
bot_Occam2004CC      Fritzlein      24124      b      g      19
bot_OpFor      bot_Arimaalon      66461      b      g      12
bot_pmertens_1      bot_speedy      9963      b      g      16
bot_scan      scan_test      44529      b      g      10
bot_ShallowBlue      naveed      1627      b      g      6
bot_sharp      PMertens      69451      b      g      18
bot_Sleepy      bot_ShallowBlue      6741      b      g      21
bot_speedy      clauchau      2438      b      g      16
bot_thread      bot_ShallowBlue      2223      b      g      23
bot_V      bot_GnoBot      22807      b      g      21
bot_weiser      bot_Loc      21608      b      g      19
bot_weiserFast      bot_Loc2005Fast      20514      b      g      33
bot_weiserP1      bot_ShallowBlue      19772      b      g      15
bot_weiserP2      blue22      19864      b      g      14
bot_WRK847      bot_GnoBot2006P1      31042      b      g      10
bot_Zombie      bot_ZombieX      45170      b      g      22
bot_ZombieX      bot_Zombie      45231      b      g      22

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 8:50pm
Fastest win by immobilization when bot plays Gold

wusername      busername      id      result      termination      plycount
bot_Aamira2006Blitz      DorianGaray      38548      b      m      31
bot_Aamira2006CC      6sense      30159      b      m      25
bot_Aamira2006Fast      obiwan      38638      b      m      31
bot_Aamira2006P1      IdahoEv      30044      b      m      17
bot_Aamira2006P2      NS_Serg      65682      b      m      27
bot_Arimaalon      Adanac      12592      b      m      23
bot_Arimaanator      Arimanator      19475      b      m      24
bot_ArimaanatorFast      DorianGaray      56554      b      m      40
bot_ArimaaScoreP1      722caasi      53270      b      m      23
bot_ArimaaScoreP2      dgandhi      45818      b      m      17
bot_Arimaazilla      88of8      9035      b      m      23
bot_Arimaazon      Belbo      12575      b      m      31
bot_bomb      99of9      9364      b      m      29
bot_Bomb2005Blitz      Arimanator      19459      b      m      26
bot_Bomb2005CC      DorianGaray      32669      b      m      33
bot_Bomb2005Fast      DorianGaray      32792      b      m      25
bot_Bomb2005P1      nbarriga      24751      b      m      32
bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      17366      b      m      23
bot_clueless      bot_Arimaanator      9009      b      m      51
bot_Clueless2005Blitz      DorianGaray      39571      b      m      32
bot_Clueless2005CC      DorianGaray      32423      b      m      34
bot_Clueless2005Fast      Arimanator      19827      b      m      34
bot_Clueless2005P1      99of9      17127      b      m      32
bot_Clueless2005P2      Arimanator      20132      b      m      37
bot_Clueless2006Blitz      bot_Arimaalon      28049      b      m      57
bot_Clueless2006CC      Raymond      58539      b      m      31
bot_Clueless2006Fast      milo      44185      b      m      38
bot_Clueless2006P1      Iii      27389      b      m      45
bot_Clueless2006P2      Raymond      58126      b      m      25
bot_FaerieP2      obiwan      44766      b      m      29
bot_Fairy      obiwan      37277      b      m      27
bot_Fairy_X      obiwan      37736      b      m      28
bot_firsttry      bot_ShallowBlue      2551      b      m      16
bot_GnoBot      PMertens      10110      b      m      46
bot_GnoBot2005Blitz      arimaa_master      49979      b      m      32
bot_GnoBot2005CC      Arimanator      18836      b      m      43
bot_GnoBot2005Fast      Arimanator      19795      b      m      42
bot_GnoBot2005P1      grey_0x2A      21466      b      m      39
bot_GnoBot2005P2      Arimanator      17035      b      m      61
bot_GnoBot2006P1      Arimanator      27402      b      m      39
bot_GnoBot2006P2      Swynndla      26602      b      m      64
bot_hercules      robstar      68506      b      m      16
bot_Loc2005CC      Adanac      12326      b      m      50
bot_Loc2005Fast      mouse      12220      b      m      37
bot_Loc2005P1      99of9      17026      b      m      49
bot_Loc2005P2      sihing      40115      b      m      44
bot_Loc2006Blitz      Scooby      42060      b      m      33
bot_Loc2006Fast      Krasnotron      58630      b      m      39
bot_Loc2006P1      Soter      50999      b      m      33
bot_Loc2006P2      blue22      27626      b      m      29
bot_Occam      omar      872      b      m      55
bot_Occam2004CC      bot_Bomb2005P2      26559      b      m      34
bot_OpFor      Soter      72151      b      m      49
bot_ShallowBlue      Lucky      281      b      m      18
bot_sharp      Arimabuff      72607      b      m      31
bot_Sleepy      jurc      6677      b      m      27
bot_speedy      clauchau      2390      b      m      37
bot_weiser      grey_0x2A      21491      b      m      39
bot_weiserP2      PMertens      19787      b      m      40
bot_WRK847      bot_Fairy      30960      b      m      24
bot_Zombie      obiwan      45293      b      m      34

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:02pm
Fastest win with no captures by either player when bot plays Gold

wusername      busername      id      result      plycount
bot_Aamira2006Blitz      The_Jeh      56962      b      17
bot_Aamira2006CC      mdk      52525      b      18
bot_Aamira2006P1      OLTI      25162      b      11
bot_Aamira2006P2      bot_Bomb2005P1      27714      b      13
bot_Arimaalon      BlackKnight      17566      b      7
bot_Arimaanator      omar      2684      b      15
bot_ArimaaScoreP1      The_Jeh      63479      b      6
bot_Arimaazilla      aanno      21624      b      13
bot_Arimaazon      handsomestofall      9569      b      13
bot_bomb      omar      5318      b      41
bot_Bomb2005Blitz      Arimanator      19459      b      26
bot_Bomb2005Fast      Arimanator      19154      b      32
bot_Bomb2005P1      Agt      72312      b      25
bot_Clueless2005Blitz      Chegorimaa      35238      b      17
bot_Clueless2005P1      dougk      50373      b      20
bot_Clueless2005P2      froody      65002      b      19
bot_Clueless2006Fast      bot_clueless      44466      b      31
bot_Fairy      bot_Arimaazilla      29176      b      26
bot_GnoBot      bot_clueless      22823      b      24
bot_GnoBot2004CC      Belbo      11414      b      25
bot_GnoBot2005Blitz      Adanac      51761      b      26
bot_GnoBot2005Fast      Fritzlein      12260      b      12
bot_GnoBot2005P1      BlackKnight      17403      b      15
bot_GnoBot2005P2      fritzlforpresident      24919      b      21
bot_GnoBot2006Blitz      Aquarius      42031      b      37
bot_GnoBot2006P1      Andhi      33715      b      13
bot_Loc2005CC      bot_Aamira2006P2      25184      b      26
bot_Loc2005P1      99of9      18007      b      28
bot_Loc2006P1      Sixhobbits      48200      b      16
bot_Occam      Belbo      2763      b      10
bot_pmertens_1      bot_ShallowBlue      9801      b      20
bot_ShallowBlue      mouse      9489      b      6
bot_weiserP2      bot_Loc2005P2      19816      b      19

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:11pm
Fastest win with no captures by either side when bot plays Silver:

wusername      busername      id      result      termination      plycount
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_Aamira      7186      w      g      18
chrismccoll      bot_Aamira2006Blitz      32111      w      g      20
Brendan      bot_Aamira2006CC      40109      w      m      35
kerdamdam      bot_Aamira2006Fast      35055      w      g      22
Matthias      bot_Aamira2006P2      28462      w      g      20
BlackKnight      bot_Arimaalon      17567      w      g      6
PMertens      bot_Arimaanator      9132      w      g      14
KlausX      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      40297      w      g      6
inylong      bot_Arimaazilla      12167      w      g      11
OLTI      bot_Arimaazon      13992      w      g      12
bot_Bomb2005Blitz      bot_bash      19202      w      g      19
Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      19327      w      m      27
Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005Fast      63271      w      m      29
Sthingy 45      bot_Bomb2005P1      58428      w      g      14
PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P2      37625      w      m      24
MrBrain      bot_Brain      1110      w      g      14
BlackKnight      bot_Clueless2005Blitz      17284      w      g      22
blue22      bot_Clueless2005Fast      40108      w      g      38
jawdirk      bot_Clueless2005P1      33150      w      g      30
camelback      bot_Clueless2006P1      47848      w      g      25
Arimabuff      bot_Clueless2006P2      59165      w      m      21
bot_Occam      bot_GnoBot      5018      w      g      24
PMertens      bot_GnoBot2005CC      18992      w      m      28
seanick      bot_GnoBot2005Fast      37334      w      g      35
chlydra      bot_GnoBot2005P1      67557      w      g      12
bot_Bomb2005CC      bot_GnoBot2006CC      44715      w      g      26
Arimanator      bot_GnoBot2006Fast      28430      w      m      40
rcline      bot_GnoBot2006P1      28521      w      g      11
bot_Bomb2005Fast      bot_GnoBot2006P2      30938      w      g      27
asheesh      bot_iiith      12699      w      g      21
99of9      bot_Loc2005P1      18005      w      g      13
aaaa      bot_Loc2006CC      51083      w      g      25
esg      bot_Loc2006P1      44225      w      g      7
bot_bomb      bot_Occam      685      w      g      12
bot_Bomb2005P2      bot_Occam2004CC      31693      w      g      18
bot_Bomb2005CC      bot_OpFor      72057      w      g      24
mouse      bot_ShallowBlue      9543      w      g      6
bot_GnoBot      bot_V      21932      w      g      19
PMertens      bot_weiserP2      19806      w      g      13
Masonic_Edge      bot_WRK847      29895      w      g      7
Belbo      bot_Zombie      46885      w      m      28

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:15pm
Fastest win by immobilization when bot plays Silver:

wusername      busername      id      result      termination      plycount
bot_Arimaanator      bot_Aamira      22832      w      m      44
bot_Bomb2005Blitz      bot_Aamira2006Blitz      28371      w      m      28
Brendan      bot_Aamira2006CC      40109      w      m      35
DorianGaray      bot_Aamira2006Fast      38481      w      m      38
CalebBrown      bot_Aamira2006P1      61805      w      m      18
Raymond      bot_Aamira2006P2      58111      w      m      32
bot_Loc2005P2      bot_Arimaalon      28703      w      m      23
mouse      bot_Arimaanator      9678      w      m      27
nogard      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      70156      w      m      18
bot_Clueless2005P1      bot_ArimaaScoreP2      27739      w      m      18
Groumpf      bot_Arimaazilla      90      w      m      16
mouse      bot_Arimaazon      12433      w      m      27
6sense      bot_bomb      21484      w      m      22
Ryan_Cable      bot_Bomb2004CC      23336      w      m      34
Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      19327      w      m      27
DorianGaray      bot_Bomb2005CC      32577      w      m      27
Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005Fast      21102      w      m      27
rjr      bot_Bomb2005P1      42171      w      m      32
PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P2      17605      w      m      24
Fritzlein      bot_Bomb2005P3      17357      w      m      47
99of9      bot_clueless      10446      w      m      47
DorianGaray      bot_Clueless2005Blitz      39365      w      m      45
Ryan_Cable      bot_Clueless2005CC      26751      w      m      33
obiwan      bot_Clueless2005Fast      38259      w      m      38
Scooby      bot_Clueless2005P1      39189      w      m      42
Ryan_Cable      bot_Clueless2005P2      26440      w      m      30
PierreHenry      bot_Clueless2006CC      59790      w      m      34
Arimanator      bot_Clueless2006Fast      27541      w      m      34
Arimabuff      bot_Clueless2006P1      59163      w      m      33
Arimabuff      bot_Clueless2006P2      59165      w      m      21
maker      bot_Destructo      8377      w      m      26
obiwan      bot_Fairy_X      37748      w      m      43
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_firsttry      2914      w      m      64
DorianGaray      bot_GnoBot2005Blitz      38359      w      m      48
PMertens      bot_GnoBot2005CC      18992      w      m      28
Arimanator      bot_GnoBot2005Fast      13588      w      m      54
nogard      bot_GnoBot2005P1      59960      w      m      21
Arimanator      bot_GnoBot2005P2      17517      w      m      36
Arimanator      bot_GnoBot2006Fast      28403      w      m      34
Ryan_Cable      bot_GnoBot2006P2      26540      w      m      42
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_haizhi      16034      w      m      24
woh      bot_knt      67327      w      m      22
PMertens      bot_lightning      12524      w      m      73
Soter      bot_Loc2005Blitz      63620      w      m      56
onigawara      bot_Loc2005CC      44947      w      m      57
Adanac      bot_Loc2005Fast      18198      w      m      53
99of9      bot_Loc2005P1      17027      w      m      33
RuthlessD      bot_Loc2005P2      30984      w      m      46
Soter      bot_Loc2006Blitz      63420      w      m      59
bot_Clueless2005CC      bot_Loc2006P1      32747      w      m      25
lightvector      bot_Loc2006P2      68395      w      m      32
lyc123      bot_lyc123      30067      w      m      21
Stanley      bot_NotImplemented      42839      w      m      12
bot_ArimaaScoreP1      bot_OpFor      66416      w      m      36
woh      bot_scan      44482      w      m      40
bot_Occam      bot_ShallowBlue      249      w      m      15
bot_GnoBot      bot_speedy      9886      w      m      28
bot_Aamira      bot_V      22157      w      m      61
omar      bot_weiserFast      19881      w      m      47
PMertens      bot_weiserP2      19782      w      m      34
Stux      bot_WRK847      30889      w      m      31
Belbo      bot_Zombie      46885      w      m      28

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:22pm
Fastest win by goal when bot plays Silver:

wusername      busername      id      result      plycount
Fritzlein      bot_2xv7      55968      w      13
B44      bot_4th_year      63404      w      20
deselby      bot_Aamira      7233      w      13
filerank      bot_Aamira2006Blitz      27147      w      15
seanick      bot_Aamira2006CC      33087      w      19
sfx      bot_Aamira2006Fast      46430      w      16
bot_Loc2006P2      bot_Aamira2006P1      42087      w      10
awedxz      bot_Aamira2006P2      66453      w      14
BlackKnight      bot_Arimaalon      17567      w      6
OLTI      bot_Arimaanator      14888      w      12
aaaa      bot_ArimaanatorFast      57078      w      28
99of9      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      29370      w      6
clauchau      bot_ArimaaScoreP2      25076      w      10
Chegorimaa      bot_ArimaaScoreP3      52113      w      24
CeeJay      bot_Arimaazilla      5393      w      9
OLTI      bot_Arimaazon      13992      w      12
bot_Loc2005P1      bot_bash      19051      w      9
James      bot_bomb      374      w      18
clauchau      bot_Bomb2004CC      7787      w      25
OLTI      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      29627      w      17
chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005CC      47134      w      19
Belbo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      14031      w      19
bot_Clueless2006P2      bot_Bomb2005Fast      31061      w      19
bot_Bomb2005Blitz      bot_Bomb2005P1      31849      w      8
Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005P2      18184      w      17
Fritzlein      bot_Bomb2005P3      17778      w      54
MrBrain      bot_Brain      1076      w      7
jdb      bot_clueless      3641      w      13
bot_Bomb2005Fast      bot_clueless_test      22414      w      27
Belbo      bot_Clueless2005Blitz      28080      w      14
blue22      bot_Clueless2005CC      50671      w      22
robinson      bot_Clueless2005Fast      12887      w      17
mistre      bot_Clueless2005P1      66382      w      14
froody      bot_Clueless2005P2      62792      w      19
bot_Aamira2006Blitz      bot_Clueless2006Blitz      43376      w      23
bot_OpFor      bot_Clueless2006CC      71064      w      25
Arimanator      bot_Clueless2006Fast      31872      w      21
aaaa      bot_Clueless2006P1      30419      w      20
Belbo      bot_Clueless2006P2      26603      w      20
ajhager      bot_CopyElephant      22151      w      24
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_cruel      31021      w      35
Deadpool      bot_CSArimaa      24027      w      10
elimin8r      bot_elimin8r      8256      w      12
IdahoEv      bot_Faerie      43909      w      12
Gorgapor      bot_FaerieP1      44468      w      13
Shamus      bot_FaerieP2      45063      w      24
bot_FaerieP1      bot_FaerieX      44469      w      21
unic      bot_Fairy      28746      w      10
DorianGaray      bot_Fairy_X      37909      w      23
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_firsttry      2575      w      9
Brillo      bot_FullOfBugs      3809      w      17
Gnagelram      bot_Gnagel      64546      w      18
bot_firsttry      bot_GnoBot      7590      w      9
Fritzlein      bot_GnoBot2004CC      13456      w      11
arimaa_master      bot_GnoBot2005Blitz      47509      w      17
The_Jeh      bot_GnoBot2005CC      57646      w      13
mouse      bot_GnoBot2005Fast      12223      w      15
PMertens      bot_GnoBot2005P1      24674      w      7
Kraizy_Dave      bot_GnoBot2005P2      68416      w      21
Chegorimaa      bot_GnoBot2006Blitz      33867      w      19
bot_Bomb2005Blitz      bot_GnoBot2006Blitz      44652      w      19
omar      bot_GnoBot2006CC      50964      w      17
KT2006      bot_GnoBot2006Fast      32519      w      22
PMertens      bot_GnoBot2006P1      26058      w      10
bot_Fairy_X      bot_GnoBot2006P2      40502      w      21
CeeJay      bot_GrowUp      6491      w      16
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_haizhi      16366      w      10
mistre      bot_hercules      68528      w      9
bot_haizhi      bot_hz      16751      w      24
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_IIIT      12542      w      21
asheesh      bot_iiith      12699      w      21
lyhy      bot_initialgame      66339      w      11
kurthyl      bot_kl      66897      w      12
knt      bot_knt      67345      w      10
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_leapfrog      3344      w      15
naveed      bot_lightning      12548      w      21
BlackKnight      bot_Loc      8159      w      13
Arimanator      bot_Loc2005Blitz      30389      w      18
Brendan      bot_Loc2005CC      40104      w      18
Arimanator      bot_Loc2005Fast      30469      w      17
bot_Clueless2005P1      bot_Loc2005P1      27081      w      10
Dreadpirate      bot_Loc2005P2      33367      w      17
froody      bot_Loc2006Blitz      66408      w      22
omar      bot_Loc2006CC      49779      w      22
fotland      bot_Loc2006Fast      47759      w      23
Arimanator      bot_Loc2006P1      31050      w      7
NS_Serg      bot_Loc2006P2      65693      w      18
lyc123      bot_lyc123      30071      w      12
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_mouse      6393      w      18
Keeps      bot_Occam      215      w      11
Chegorimaa      bot_Occam2004CC      40167      w      13
bot_Arimaalon      bot_OpFor      66460      w      16
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_pmertens_1      9466      w      15
Sameer      bot_ShallowBlue      3182      w      6
lightvector      bot_sharp      69281      w      13
Michael_Morse      bot_silly1      71110      w      15
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_Sleepy      6705      w      10
bot_speedy      bot_speedtrap      9842      w      316
jdb      bot_speedy      997      w      15
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_Steerpike      32728      w      22
6sense      bot_tarimaa      70369      w      9
rusty      bot_test1      30145      w      39
Janzert      bot_thread      679      w      7
bot_bomb      bot_txapeldun      546      w      10
tanukitzu      bot_TypingMonkey      5101      w      13
Adanac      bot_V      22394      w      15
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_Viper      6867      w      20
bot_Arimaazon      bot_weiser      20203      w      15
bot_Loc2005Blitz      bot_weiserBlitz      19874      w      39
bot_GnoBot2005Fast      bot_weiserFast      19877      w      36
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_weiserP1      19771      w      20
PMertens      bot_weiserP2      19806      w      13
Stux      bot_WRK847      29894      w      6
bot_WRK847      bot_WRK847_2      30956      w      54
chessandgo      bot_Zombie      47135      w      18
bot_Zombie      bot_ZombieX      45194      w      25

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:25pm
I can't think of a way to query handicap games or games where you don't take opposing pieces but it's OK if your own pieces get taken.  I don't know how to query for total annihilation or games played under restrictions such as taking only three steps per move or never advancing your own elephant past the midline.

I only queried for games ending in goal or immobilization, not repetition.  The justification is that you can never force a bot into repetition, you merely trip a bug, but maybe some of the methods of forcing goal or immobilization are also akin to tripping a bug, so I don't know.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:27pm
What date are these records through?  I noticed my recent game vs AamiraP2 is not shown.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:30pm

on 04/01/08 at 21:27:45, mistre wrote:
What date are these records through?  I noticed my recent game vs AamiraP2 is not shown.

My database goes only up to game 72910, whereas your recent record was game 73325.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:33pm
Which bots are the "Fixed Performance" bots?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:40pm
Generally anything with a "Px" should be fixed performance by virtue of cutting off search at a fixed depth regardless of hardware speed.  Also ShallowBlue, Arimaalon, and Arimaazilla, which are really OccamP1, OccamP1.5, and OccamP2.  Arimaazon is not fixed performance.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:49pm

on 03/09/08 at 14:20:34, Gerenuk wrote:
bot_Loc2006CC lost in 23 moves in Game 71976.
Does that count?

Sorry, Gerenuk.  Omar beat you by one move in game 49779.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 99of9 on Apr 1st, 2008, 10:29pm
Where did the records against shallowblue go?  I was quite partial to my handicap records.

For the record, I think they were:
http://www.arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=9391&s=b
http://www.arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=9054&s=w

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 1st, 2008, 11:38pm
Please bear with me as I make changes to the bot bashing page.  All of the information that was on there, will stay on there, just in a different format.

I am splitting up the data into separate tables for each type of bot bash record, so that there is space to put the record holders.  I would eventually like to put in the game number and link for each record as well.

The ONLY thing I am deleting is the Annihilation records - for which there were only two listed anyways. Basically, Annihilation is a form of Immobilization and can only happen if a bot decides to suicide his elephant. I think I have seen 1 game in which a player forced the bot to suicide his elephant (it was his only move), but other than that, it is not in the player's control whether or not a bot decides to suicide and therefore not a great idea for bot-bashing IMO.  There is only 1 case known in a game where an elephant has been framed on a trap (and we all know about that game!)  :-[

On the other hand, when Extermination becomes a method of winning, I will add that to the bot-bashing page which should make for some fun record chasing.

I will work on it more tommorrow and I will have some formatting questions for anyone that will be able to answer them, so stay tuned.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by lightvector on Apr 2nd, 2008, 12:12am
I agree with getting rid of those. But one question: If one player has all 16 pieces, and the other player has only an Elephant, is it possible to force the unwilling elephant into a trap by means of blockade tactics?

And if not, then of course we have the inevitable theoretical question (probably better moved to another thread): How many friendly small pieces does a player in addition to the Elephant to force a lone Elephant to suicide itself? For simplicity, say that none of the small pieces are rabbits.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 2nd, 2008, 7:46am
Lightvector,

The answer to your first question is yes.  See game 72488 http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=72488&s=b (Arimabuff vs Bomb2005CC)

And the fewest number of pieces that you would need would be 7, your Elephant and any other 6 pieces.  Whether or not you could actually get his Elephant in position with only 7 pieces is another question...

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by aaaa on Apr 2nd, 2008, 10:08am
That game doesn't prove anything as in the end the bot is in the position of having only losing moves to pick from.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Apr 2nd, 2008, 10:35am
I agree that this game is not a good example of what you’re asking.

Although in any game where you use the method known as bait and tackle, you can force the elephant to throw itself in the trap after you've killed or immobilized every other piece. I believe I've done it like a dozen times but I didn't keep track of the game numbers. Others did it too so there may be like a hundred games in the database where the elephant was actually forced to kill itself without being led to this by a series of random equally losing moves.

However I can offer this as a recent example where I forced a player to either resign or throw his elephant into a trap. I must say that he was enough of a good sport to play the game till the very end:

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=73362&s=b


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 2nd, 2008, 9:35pm
Fastest win by goal when bot plays Silver (hopefully correct this time).

wusername      busername      id      result      termination      plycount
Fritzlein      bot_2xv7      55968      w      g      13
B44      bot_4th_year      63404      w      g      20
bot_Loc      bot_Aamira      22505      w      g      13
filerank      bot_Aamira2006Blitz      27147      w      g      15
seanick      bot_Aamira2006CC      33087      w      g      19
sfx      bot_Aamira2006Fast      46430      w      g      16
bot_Loc2006P2      bot_Aamira2006P1      42087      w      g      10
awedxz      bot_Aamira2006P2      66453      w      g      14
BlackKnight      bot_Arimaalon      17567      w      g      6
OLTI      bot_Arimaanator      14888      w      g      12
aaaa      bot_ArimaanatorFast      57078      w      g      28
99of9      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      29370      w      g      6
clauchau      bot_ArimaaScoreP2      25076      w      g      10
Chegorimaa      bot_ArimaaScoreP3      52113      w      g      24
Eduardo      bot_Arimaazilla      12796      w      g      9
OLTI      bot_Arimaazon      13992      w      g      12
bot_Loc2005P1      bot_bash      19051      w      g      9
James      bot_bomb      374      w      g      18
clauchau      bot_Bomb2004CC      7787      w      g      25
OLTI      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      29627      w      g      17
chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005CC      47134      w      g      19
Belbo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      14031      w      g      19
Cweman      bot_Bomb2005P1      65999      w      g      8
Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005P2      18184      w      g      17
Fritzlein      bot_Bomb2005P3      17778      w      g      54
MrBrain      bot_Brain      1076      w      g      7
jdb      bot_clueless      3641      w      g      13
bot_Bomb2005Fast      bot_clueless_test      22414      w      g      27
Belbo      bot_Clueless2005Blitz      28080      w      g      14
blue22      bot_Clueless2005CC      50671      w      g      22
robinson      bot_Clueless2005Fast      12887      w      g      17
mistre      bot_Clueless2005P1      66382      w      g      14
froody      bot_Clueless2005P2      62792      w      g      19
bot_Aamira2006Blitz      bot_Clueless2006Blitz      43376      w      g      23
bot_OpFor      bot_Clueless2006CC      71064      w      g      25
Arimanator      bot_Clueless2006Fast      31872      w      g      21
bot_Occam2004CC      bot_Clueless2006P1      34028      w      g      20
Belbo      bot_Clueless2006P2      26603      w      g      20
ajhager      bot_CopyElephant      22151      w      g      24
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_cruel      31021      w      g      35
Deadpool      bot_CSArimaa      24027      w      g      10
elimin8r      bot_elimin8r      8256      w      g      12
IdahoEv      bot_Faerie      43909      w      g      12
Gorgapor      bot_FaerieP1      44468      w      g      13
Shamus      bot_FaerieP2      45063      w      g      24
bot_FaerieP1      bot_FaerieX      44469      w      g      21
unic      bot_Fairy      28746      w      g      10
DorianGaray      bot_Fairy_X      37909      w      g      23
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_firsttry      2575      w      g      9
Brillo      bot_FullOfBugs      3809      w      g      17
Gnagelram      bot_Gnagel      64546      w      g      18
bot_Bomb2005CC      bot_GnoBot      21911      w      g      9
Fritzlein      bot_GnoBot2004CC      13456      w      g      11
arimaa_master      bot_GnoBot2005Blitz      47509      w      g      17
The_Jeh      bot_GnoBot2005CC      57646      w      g      13
PierreHenry      bot_GnoBot2005Fast      57539      w      g      15
PMertens      bot_GnoBot2005P1      24674      w      g      7
Kraizy_Dave      bot_GnoBot2005P2      68416      w      g      21
Chegorimaa      bot_GnoBot2006Blitz      33867      w      g      19
omar      bot_GnoBot2006CC      50964      w      g      17
KT2006      bot_GnoBot2006Fast      32519      w      g      22
PMertens      bot_GnoBot2006P1      26058      w      g      10
bot_Fairy_X      bot_GnoBot2006P2      40502      w      g      21
CeeJay      bot_GrowUp      6491      w      g      16
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_haizhi      16366      w      g      10
mistre      bot_hercules      68528      w      g      9
bot_haizhi      bot_hz      16751      w      g      24
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_IIIT      12542      w      g      21
asheesh      bot_iiith      12699      w      g      21
lyhy      bot_initialgame      66339      w      g      11
kurthyl      bot_kl      66897      w      g      12
knt      bot_knt      67345      w      g      10
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_leapfrog      3344      w      g      15
naveed      bot_lightning      12548      w      g      21
BlackKnight      bot_Loc      8159      w      g      13
Arimanator      bot_Loc2005Blitz      30389      w      g      18
Brendan      bot_Loc2005CC      40104      w      g      18
Arimanator      bot_Loc2005Fast      30469      w      g      17
Ethos      bot_Loc2005P1      42106      w      g      10
Dreadpirate      bot_Loc2005P2      33367      w      g      17
froody      bot_Loc2006Blitz      66408      w      g      22
omar      bot_Loc2006CC      49779      w      g      22
fotland      bot_Loc2006Fast      47759      w      g      23
esg      bot_Loc2006P1      44225      w      g      7
NS_Serg      bot_Loc2006P2      65693      w      g      18
lyc123      bot_lyc123      30071      w      g      12
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_mouse      6393      w      g      18
Keeps      bot_Occam      215      w      g      11
Chegorimaa      bot_Occam2004CC      40167      w      g      13
bot_Arimaalon      bot_OpFor      66460      w      g      16
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_pmertens_1      9466      w      g      15
mouse      bot_ShallowBlue      9543      w      g      6
lightvector      bot_sharp      69281      w      g      13
Michael_Morse      bot_silly1      71110      w      g      15
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_Sleepy      6705      w      g      10
bot_speedy      bot_speedtrap      9842      w      g      316
jdb      bot_speedy      997      w      g      15
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_Steerpike      32728      w      g      22
6sense      bot_tarimaa      70369      w      g      9
rusty      bot_test1      30145      w      g      39
Janzert      bot_thread      679      w      g      7
bot_bomb      bot_txapeldun      546      w      g      10
tanukitzu      bot_TypingMonkey      5101      w      g      13
Adanac      bot_V      22394      w      g      15
bot_Arimaazilla      bot_Viper      6867      w      g      20
bot_Arimaazon      bot_weiser      20203      w      g      15
bot_Loc2005Blitz      bot_weiserBlitz      19874      w      g      39
bot_GnoBot2005Fast      bot_weiserFast      19877      w      g      36
bot_ShallowBlue      bot_weiserP1      19771      w      g      20
PMertens      bot_weiserP2      19806      w      g      13
Stux      bot_WRK847      29894      w      g      6
bot_WRK847      bot_WRK847_2      30956      w      g      54
chessandgo      bot_Zombie      47135      w      g      18
bot_Zombie      bot_ZombieX      45248      w      g      25

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 3rd, 2008, 1:28pm
Fixed!

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 3rd, 2008, 3:52pm
Thanks, for fixing it, mistre, and for doing all the manual labor to double-check my results.  Since you are a glutton for punishment (i.e. repetitive tasks), I realized that while I can't query for handicap records per se, I can query for games in which an early capture happened, if you are willing to examine them by hand for potential handicap records.  Of course, there is no need for you to sort through all of these, but if you are curious what has been done and how, it might be kind of interesting.

I don't claim that my query caught all handicap games, or that all the games it did catch were played at handicap.  Also I had to exclude ArimaaScoreP1 from my query when the human plays Silver, because the extreme idiocy of ArimaaScoreP1 means that the early capture is usually legitimate, not a handicap.

Gold gives handicap against bot:

id      wusername      busername      termination      result
38582      broutcha      bot_Aamira2006P1      g      w
8908      88of8      bot_Arimaalon      g      w
9144      PMertens      bot_Arimaanator      g      w
32474      Guest5031      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
35621      yurko      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
36111      jmssil      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
41340      Guest5513      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
45223      lukenilpolso      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
61962      wumps      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
63836      botbasher      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      m      w
66074      Victor_V      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
71157      Flor      bot_ArimaaScoreP1      g      w
8457      omar      bot_Arimaazilla      g      w
9143      88of8      bot_Arimaazilla      g      w
11224      naveed      bot_Arimaazilla      g      w
5331      omar      bot_bomb      g      w
16244      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      g      w
16318      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      g      w
16388      Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      g      w
16438      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      g      w
16606      Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      g      w
16655      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      g      w
56489      aaaa      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      g      w
13845      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005CC      g      w
41359      Fritzlein      bot_Bomb2005CC      g      w
47349      Fritzlein      bot_Bomb2005CC      g      w
48023      Fritzlein      bot_Bomb2005CC      g      w
13755      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
13864      robinson      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
39271      chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
40840      chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
40889      chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
41001      chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
43097      chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
47919      chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
47963      chessandgo      bot_Bomb2005Fast      g      w
16857      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P1      g      w
16450      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
16465      99of9      bot_Bomb2005P2      g      w
16480      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P2      g      w
17605      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
17647      Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
17656      Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
17659      Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
17715      Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
17865      Arimanator      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
23743      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P2      g      w
23745      PMertens      bot_Bomb2005P2      m      w
1115      MrBrain      bot_Brain      g      w
16780      PMertens      bot_Clueless2005P1      g      w
36448      Calumet45      bot_Clueless2006Fast      m      w
28104      OLTI      bot_Clueless2006P2      m      w
36696      Fritzlein      bot_GnoBot2005Fast      g      w
41005      chessandgo      bot_GnoBot2005Fast      g      w
16773      PMertens      bot_GnoBot2005P1      g      w
26549      Swynndla      bot_GnoBot2005P2      g      w
16771      PMertens      bot_Loc2005P1      g      w
16833      PMertens      bot_Loc2005P2      g      w
420      tough_to_win      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
3912      lesmisrules      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
5571      99of9      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
6291      Yuri      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
8907      88of8      bot_ShallowBlue      m      w
8912      88of8      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
9037      Fritzlein      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
9054      88of8      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
9934      vaurek      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
11257      Guest2128      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w
15596      murph1016      bot_ShallowBlue      g      w

Silver gives handicap against bot:

id      wusername      busername      termination      result
8911      bot_Arimaalon      88of8      g      b
8946      bot_Arimaalon      Fritzlein      g      b
9058      bot_Arimaalon      88of8      m      b
8501      bot_Arimaanator      omar      g      b
8917      bot_Arimaanator      Fritzlein      g      b
11412      bot_Arimaanator      omar      g      b
56774      bot_ArimaaScoreP2      Guest6914      g      b
8456      bot_Arimaazilla      omar      g      b
9140      bot_Arimaazilla      88of8      g      b
9142      bot_Arimaazilla      88of8      g      b
9193      bot_Arimaazilla      Fritzlein      g      b
9200      bot_Arimaazilla      99of9      g      b
8900      bot_Arimaazon      Fritzlein      g      b
8909      bot_Arimaazon      PMertens      g      b
25360      bot_bomb      Fritzlein      g      b
71532      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      chessandgo      g      b
71535      bot_Bomb2005Blitz      chessandgo      g      b
47739      bot_Bomb2005CC      Fritzlein      g      b
48013      bot_Bomb2005CC      omar      g      b
55704      bot_Bomb2005CC      aaaa      g      b
47994      bot_Bomb2005Fast      Fritzlein      g      b
56337      bot_Bomb2005Fast      aaaa      g      b
17624      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17655      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17666      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17691      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      g      b
17703      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17704      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17705      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      g      b
17706      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      g      b
17725      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      g      b
17729      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17753      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17767      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17792      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
17795      bot_Bomb2005P2      PMertens      m      b
18187      bot_Clueless2005P1      99of9      g      b
28057      bot_Clueless2006P2      OLTI      m      b
36350      bot_Clueless2006P2      obiwan      m      b
58522      bot_GnoBot2005P1      722caasi      g      b
59885      bot_GnoBot2005P1      722caasi      g      b
26551      bot_GnoBot2005P2      Swynndla      g      b
29805      bot_GnoBot2006P1      frostlad      g      b
3377      bot_haizhi      bot_ShallowBlue      g      b
68560      bot_hercules      lightvector      g      b
100      bot_Occam      bot_ShallowBlue      g      b
190      bot_ShallowBlue      Getafix      g      b
859      bot_ShallowBlue      Guest597      g      b
5778      bot_ShallowBlue      Vanilla      g      b
8401      bot_ShallowBlue      maker      g      b
8906      bot_ShallowBlue      88of8      g      b
8910      bot_ShallowBlue      Fritzlein      g      b
9036      bot_ShallowBlue      Fritzlein      g      b
9039      bot_ShallowBlue      Fritzlein      g      b
9391      bot_ShallowBlue      99of9      g      b
18569      bot_ShallowBlue      Guest3662      g      b
10877      bot_speedy      Fritzlein      m      b

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 3rd, 2008, 4:25pm
Thanks a lot.....   ;)

I know my curiosity is going to make me check all of the games you listed.  I've already started.


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 5th, 2008, 3:21pm
I've finished going through all of the games you listed and have made the changes to the handicap table.  

Most of the games vs. Shallowblue and ArimaaScoreP1 were by new players who probably sacrificed their piece inadvertently during a learning game.

I thought I would show the following game vs. ArimaaScoreP1 as a special case since the human player may have inadvertently sacrified his Elephant and still was able to win in what might have been his first game!

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=66074%20&s=w

A few other games involving Clueless2006p2 completely baffled me.  In games 28057 and 28104, OLTI sacrificed  all of his pieces save his E and D.  However, after he sacrificed all of his rabbits, the bot only made 1 step moves for the rest of the game, making it possible for OLTI to win with such an enormous handicap.

In a similar game - 36448, Camulet45 sacrificed all of his rabbits and then went on to win my immobilization vs Clueless2006fast as the bot only made 1-step moves.

I am thinking these matches should be highlighted under the unusual game pages as they involve strange bot behavior.  Note that once the extermination rules go into effect, no player will be able to trigger this behavior because they will have lost when they lose their last rabbit.

Does any one know of any other bots that do this?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Apr 5th, 2008, 3:45pm

on 04/05/08 at 15:21:13, mistre wrote:
I've finished going through all of the games you listed and have made the changes to the handicap table.  

Most of the games vs. Shallowblue and ArimaaScoreP1 were by new players who probably sacrificed their piece inadvertently during a learning game.

I thought I would show the following game vs. ArimaaScoreP1 as a special case since the human player may have inadvertently sacrified his Elephant and still was able to win in what might have been his first game!

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=66074%20&s=w

A few other games involving Clueless2006p2 completely baffled me.  In games 28057 and 28104, OLTI sacrificed  all of his pieces save his E and D.  However, after he sacrificed all of his rabbits, the bot only made 1 step moves for the rest of the game, making it possible for OLTI to win with such an enormous handicap.

In a similar game - 36448, Camulet45 sacrificed all of his rabbits and then went on to win my immobilization vs Clueless2006fast as the bot only made 1-step moves.

I am thinking these matches should be highlighted under the unusual game pages as they involve strange bot behavior.  Note that once the extermination rules go into effect, no player will be able to trigger this behavior because they will have lost when they lose their last rabbit.

Does any one know of any other bots that do this?

There's nothing remarkable to this, many know about this bug. It's due to an old rule of Arimaa. Once you've lost all your rabbits Clueless2006 thinks that he's won the game and stop trying to beat you. So there's really nothing to it.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 5th, 2008, 9:27pm
Yes, it will be nice once the game room and tournaments have a unified rule set with losing all your rabbits being a loss.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 99of9 on Apr 5th, 2008, 11:54pm

on 04/05/08 at 15:21:13, mistre wrote:
I thought I would show the following game vs. ArimaaScoreP1 as a special case since the human player may have inadvertently sacrified his Elephant and still was able to win in what might have been his first game!

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=66074%20&s=w

I think this counts as a clear ER handicap (the R was suicided on the 3rd move after setup, early enough to count in my books).  It's impressive that a player has the current handicap record with his first ever game!

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Apr 6th, 2008, 12:30am
I have E+M handicap for bot_ArimaaScoreP1 and both colors; games 73566 and 73567.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 99of9 on Apr 6th, 2008, 1:10am
Fastest no-capture win with silver against ArimaaScoreP1: 5 moves in game 73572.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Apr 6th, 2008, 6:04am
E+M handicap for bot_ArimaaScoreP2 with silver in 25 moves; game 73591

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 99of9 on Apr 6th, 2008, 7:05am
I had a go at my prediction against ArimaaScoreP1:
EMHHDD with gold, game 73595.
EMHHDD with silver, game 73598.

I think there's more potential in this bot.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by arimaa_master on Apr 6th, 2008, 7:06am
bot_ArimaaScoreP2: E+M+H handicap with gold in 38 moves (game 73593).

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Apr 6th, 2008, 7:17am
bot_ArimaaScoreP2: E+M+H+D handicap with silver in 29 moves (game 73597).  ;)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 6th, 2008, 1:40pm
Looks like I sparked a revival of bot-bashing with my Elephant handicap games!

I will update the page with the records in this thread, but from now on - please use the thread, that says New! at the end.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Apr 6th, 2008, 2:11pm

on 04/06/08 at 07:05:29, 99of9 wrote:
I had a go at my prediction against ArimaaScoreP1:
EMHHDD with gold, game 73595.
EMHHDD with silver, game 73598.

I think there's more potential in this bot.

against ArimaaScoreP1:
EMHHDDR with silver, game 73617 in 14 moves.

You were right 99, there was more potential.  ;D

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Sep 15th, 2008, 11:03am
Game 83242:

Goal in 13 as silver against Aamira2006Fast

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Sep 23rd, 2008, 10:20am
The Bot Bashing Page has been updated for all of the new bots (Zombie, OpFor, Sharp, Clueless2007, and Loc2007).

Please check for accuracy.

Also, I have identified the following 3 games that are questionable records because they likely are vs. early development versions of the bots and not the current versions.  This is because all 3 games involved unassisted E-Suicides on the part of the bot.

Arimaazilla - http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=90&s=w

Shallowblue - http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=249&s=w

and

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=281&s=b

If these records are disqualified, I will need help finding the correct records for these.



Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Sep 24th, 2008, 9:18am
Game 84074:
 
Goal in 13 as Gold against Aamira2006Fast

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Sep 25th, 2008, 11:57am
Game 84220:  
 
Goal in 13 as Silver against Aamira2006Blitz

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by tize on Oct 4th, 2008, 6:57am
Game 84797

As silver against bot_Sharp2008P2, goal in 12.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Oct 4th, 2008, 10:46pm
Game 84854

As gold against bot_loc2007Fast, win by immobilisation in 47.

Im not sure if unrated games count

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 99of9 on Oct 5th, 2008, 1:20am

on 10/04/08 at 22:46:11, Tachyon wrote:
Im not sure if unrated games count

Yes, unrated games definitely count.  In fact, if you are taking risks (like handicaps) to achieve your botbashing, it is better for the ratings & statistics if you do it unrated.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Kraizy_Dave on Oct 9th, 2008, 1:19pm
31 move immobilisation against gnobot2005_blitz
Game 85236
(previous record 42)

i think about 25 moves should be possible with the same method.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Kraizy_Dave on Oct 11th, 2008, 3:57pm
no piece captured immobilisation (79 moves gold)

against     bot_clueless2007Blitz
game        85424

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Kraizy_Dave on Oct 12th, 2008, 1:07pm
no piece captured imobilisation
game 85510
against Bomb2005Blitz

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Oct 16th, 2008, 10:09pm
Gold win by Immobilization against Gnobot2005Fast

51 Moves - Game # 85822

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Oct 17th, 2008, 1:19am
Game 85835

As Gold against bot_Zombie2008Fast, goal in 17.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Gerenuk on Oct 18th, 2008, 8:51am
Goal with 13 with Gold vs OpFor2008P2
Game 85971

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Oct 19th, 2008, 1:39am
Game 86042
 
As Gold against bot_Aamira2006Blitz, goal in 12.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Nov 5th, 2008, 1:11pm
Records have been updated.  Kraizy_Dave has become only the 7th Arimaa Player to achieve a no-capture immobilization.

Please continue to post records here as I am no longer actively checking for them.


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by peppi on Nov 11th, 2008, 6:20am
game 88124: as silver against bot_clueless2007P2 in 11 moves.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by peppi on Nov 12th, 2008, 5:36pm
game 88323: as silver against bot_zombie2008blitz in 11 moves.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Recordgame 88323: as silv
Post by peppi on Nov 16th, 2008, 6:55am
game 88664: as gold against bot_clueless2007fast in 11 moves.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by peppi on Nov 16th, 2008, 3:51pm
game 88694: as silver against bot_clueless2007blitz in 10 moves.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by peppi on Nov 16th, 2008, 4:34pm
game 88701: as silver against bot_OpFor2008blitz in 16 moves.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Nov 19th, 2008, 9:51pm
Game : 89037

Bomb2005CC - No Capture Immobilization 29 Moves

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Nov 20th, 2008, 10:10am
good job Tachyon! quite the feat,

i have some less meaningful records:

Game 88960

Game 88959

Game 88956

Game 88744

Game 88375

Game 86711

didn't realize i had so many
(my praise of Tachyon was not meant to be sarcastic...i think it sounds that way after i found these)


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Nov 22nd, 2008, 3:38am
Game 86563 against Clueless2005blitz DDH handicap as gold
pretty fast too :)

Game 89191 against OpFor2008P1 move 9 goal as Gold

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Nov 25th, 2008, 11:59am
Game 89473

against Bomb2005Blitz goal in 11 as silver

im actually happy about this one, took me two tries to get it

Loc2007Blitz, immobilization 36 moves as gold
Game 91290

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gert7 on Nov 26th, 2008, 2:26am
Two records I think:

game 89554 OpForBlitz2008 Gold 13 moves
game 89283 OpforFast2008 Gold 18 moves

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by svartalfar17 on Dec 4th, 2008, 10:11pm
Immobilization without a single capture by either side.

Game 89093

bot_SushiNinja

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Dec 5th, 2008, 7:24am
bot_SushiNinja does not count for anything as it is a developers bot

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Dec 5th, 2008, 10:17am
Welcome to the Forum svartalfar17!

What Tuks means to say is not that your achievement is too worthless to even mention.  Please feel free to post about anything you think is worthy of note.

What Tuks means instead is that the Bot Bashing Hall of Fame restricts itself to recording records for bots that are not changing.  For example, if someone crushed bot_bomb when it was in an early developmental stage, it's not fair to compare it to someone trying to beat bot_bomb later when it became the strongest bot around.  Because we anticipate that some day bot_SushiNinja may be much stronger than it is at present, but will then still play under the same name, it doesn't make sense to track records for bot_SushiNinja.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tachyon on Dec 5th, 2008, 11:34pm
Hi Fritz

I was wondering how the hall of fame deals with bots that change their play when playing unrated games. Surely setting up a record is not the same for the same bot when playing it unrated than playing it rated. The hall of fame does not distinguish between the two .... or does it ???


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Dec 6th, 2008, 2:33am
yes, sorry, i meant what fritz said

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Dec 6th, 2008, 6:26am
Good question Tachyon.  I don't think the bot-bashing community has reached a consensus about what to do about bots that play differently when unrated.  It makes sense that it is difficult to know what to do, because the motivation behind developers making their bots play differently when unrated is to frustrate a certain type of bot-bashing.

Given that so far the only change is to use a weaker a setup for unrated gmaes, but not play weaker thereafter, my inclination would be to count all records anyway.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Gerenuk on Dec 9th, 2008, 4:16am
Op_For2008Fast
Goal in 12 with Silver
#90910 (changed)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Gerenuk on Dec 10th, 2008, 3:19pm
Clueless2007Fast
Goal 23 as Gold
#91059

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Quirk on Jan 8th, 2009, 8:29pm
I managed to shave one off bot_Zombie2008Fast's stated score for gold; got it down from 17 to 16 to win by goal.

Game 93582.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=93582&s=w

I'd had a really bad run against this bot for a bit, trying to play its game and making any number of tactical blunders (I think it was a bad day, really...) and then I started winning a little bit. For this game I looked at some of the botbashing record games, and then at some of the past quicker wins against Zombie2008Fast, then came up with a crazy starting setup and went for a quick rabbit win up the left hand side. It features what's got to be a relatively uncommon starting camel position.

I think there are some issues with the bot, incidentally - it's lost quite a lot of games on time, including one I played with it recently where it wanted to repeat the position a third time and couldn't, and sulked for five minutes. It might bear some looking into.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Quirk on Jan 9th, 2009, 10:20pm
And another one, rather more impressive in the margin reduced:

gold against bot_OpFor2008Fast, reduced from a stated 34 moves to just 14.
Game 93677
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=93677&s=w

I think the stats on that one are outdated anyway. Looking back, it's had a loss in 12 against someone playing silver and 18 against someone playing gold - but as far as I can tell, 14 is the fastest against it with gold.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Jan 12th, 2009, 7:44pm
If someone else wants to take over the duty of updating the page, be my guest.  I have stopped updating it.

Karl (Fritzlein) - can give you the password.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Jan 12th, 2009, 8:18pm
ill do it if i have time, Fritz, send me the password either by email on on the forum

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 12th, 2009, 8:46pm

on 01/12/09 at 20:18:31, Tuks wrote:
ill do it if i have time, Fritz, send me the password either by email on on the forum

Sent.  If you have extra time, an extra-nice service would be to move it over to the new wiki.  Ask Omar to make an account for you there if you feel up to it.  I understand that the plan is eventually to shut down the old wiki after everything has been moved over.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Jan 13th, 2009, 9:41am
i got it, and i looked at it, i will edit it on the weekend, im having trouble finding time to do anything other than studying for exams during this (and next) week and when i do find time, i like using it for relaxation.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Jan 21st, 2009, 1:51pm
After a break from Arimaa from a while, I am slowly getting back into it - I will resume botbash update page duty and have those new records updated soon.  I just beat OpforP1 in 9 moves which is a new record :-)

Tuks you are off the hook  ;)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 21st, 2009, 3:28pm
It's good to have you back, mistre.  Just yesterday 99of9 and I were counting up how many potential Challenge defenders had become inactive.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Tuks on Jan 22nd, 2009, 6:21am
o ok, i just finished exams so if you need help dont hesitate to ask

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Jan 22nd, 2009, 11:32am
Records updated.  Please check for accuracy.  I am most impressed with peppi's records (presumably a 9-yr old girl) from the Netherlands.


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 22nd, 2009, 12:16pm

on 01/22/09 at 11:32:42, mistre wrote:
I am most impressed with peppi's records (presumably a 9-yr old girl) from the Netherlands.

The personal information is obviously a joke.  Peppi & Kokki is a slapstick comedy duo that had some success in the Netherlands a few decades back.  It could be like a nine-year-old in the U.S. naming their account Cindy Brady; most likely it's an adult, because kids that young probably didn't grow up loving the Brady Bunch.  And not only is peppi probably an adult, the game records suggest it may well be an experienced player who has played before under another account name.

I have no objections to people playing anonymously, and no objections to their records being in the bot-bashing Hall of Fame, but I'm not about to give extra kudos because someone faked his personal information.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Jan 22nd, 2009, 1:55pm
I am not sure.  This person may not really be a 9-year old from the Netherlands, but I can't tell from game history if it is an old user using an alias or an actual new player.  If you look at Peppi's record (45-117), it is certainly possible that this is a new player who found a way to bash a few bots.  Still, It could be an old user who was really trying to disguise his or her intentions.  It has been awfully quiet around here without one infamous player (I won't name names)... hint hint.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by RonWeasley on Jan 23rd, 2009, 5:07am

on 01/22/09 at 12:16:41, Fritzlein wrote:
The personal information is obviously a joke.  Peppi & Kokki is a slapstick comedy duo that had some success in the Netherlands a few decades back.  It could be like a nine-year-old in the U.S. naming their account Cindy Brady; most likely it's an adult, because kids that young probably didn't grow up loving the Brady Bunch.  And not only is peppi probably an adult, the game records suggest it may well be an experienced player who has played before under another account name.

I have no objections to people playing anonymously, and no objections to their records being in the bot-bashing Hall of Fame, but I'm not about to give extra kudos because someone faked his personal information.

What?  You mean this might not be the REAL Peppi or the REAL Cindy Brady?  I'm so disillusioned.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 23rd, 2009, 6:41am
I guess the only person who can clear this up for us is peppi himself.  (or herself)  :)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Janzert on Jan 26th, 2009, 2:39pm
I made an initial import of the TWiki page over to the new wiki. It can be found at http://arimaa.com/arimaa/mwiki/index.php/Bot_Bashers.

There are still a few minor formatting things that need to be cleaned up but I've at least converted the tables and I think all the links to the correct format.

Janzert

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 26th, 2009, 6:48pm
Sweet.  Thanks Janzert.  That may have been the hardest part of the old Twiki to move.  Now we need to get the game room link switched over, and persuade mistre to update at the new place.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by omar on Jan 26th, 2009, 10:23pm
Wow, nice going Janzert. It looks much nicer in the new wiki.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Jan 28th, 2009, 2:23pm
Just let me know how I go about updating on the new Wiki.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by omar on Jan 29th, 2009, 11:41am
mistre, you should be receiving an mail soon with you login for the new wiki.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by 99of9 on Jan 29th, 2009, 1:59pm
could i have one too please?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ngerhart on Feb 11th, 2009, 9:11pm
check out game 97040; win over arimascoreP1 by elimination in 15 moves with all my pieces returning to their original place.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ngerhart on Feb 11th, 2009, 9:13pm
BotOpFor2008P1
Immobilization/annihilation win by gold in 51 moves
Game #96974

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 3rd, 2009, 7:37pm
Any new records to report?

I had thought about adding fastest elimination games at one point, but elimination games tend to be pretty boring unless you throw in some extra twists, so just listing the fastest eliminations would be kind of pointless.

I still want to tie up some loose ends on the fastest immos for shallow blue and arimaazilla.  The records posted by Fritzlein for these bots appeared to be very early testing games where the bot suicided its Elephant within the first few moves and therefore I am guessing that these were not the final versions of the bots that are currently on the ladder.  Can we figure out the real records for these?

Bot bashing has been pretty quiet lately as everyone is taking on the new gnobot and clueless bots anyways.


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ngerhart on Apr 15th, 2009, 8:13pm
Game 102863   gold wins in 28 by immobilization against bot_arimaascorep1 but BOTH players are immobilized.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by erict on Apr 17th, 2009, 10:33am
I just beat bot_GnoBot2005P1 in 8 moves as silver.

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=103046&s=b

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by zuborm on Apr 21st, 2009, 9:59am
game 98828: It posibly a record against bot_OpFor2008P2 with silver win by goal in 20

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 29th, 2009, 9:49am

on 04/17/09 at 10:33:33, erict wrote:
I just beat bot_GnoBot2005P1 in 8 moves as silver.

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=103046&s=b


Congrats on beating a more than 4-year old record!  It has been added to the bot-bash hall of fame.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Apr 29th, 2009, 9:51am

on 04/15/09 at 20:13:25, ngerhart wrote:
Game 102863   gold wins in 28 by immobilization against bot_arimaascorep1 but BOTH players are immobilized.


This qualifies as a no-capture immobilization.  You are only the 9th player in Arimaa history to complete one and the first vs. this bot.  It has been added to the bot bash hall of fame.  Here is a challenge for you - can you do the same vs ArimaaScoreP2?


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by novacat on May 5th, 2009, 6:00am
I just found the bot bashing page and wanted to add a couple of my recent games:

game 103019; Loc2007Blitz vs novacat* silver wins by goal in 20 moves

game 103357; Zombie2008Blitz vs novacat* silver wins by goal in 10 moves

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on May 8th, 2009, 1:10pm
novacat,

the records have been updated.  Congrats on having 2 botbashing records!

Also,  looking at your profile, I saw that you registered way back in 2004!  What made you stop playing?  What made you come back?

For me, Arimaa has had more staying power than any other online game I have played and I foresee it being that way well into the future. Although I do have to say I have started playing a browser based strategy game that I really love now called Imperial Ages...


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by zuborm on May 8th, 2009, 1:19pm
mistre
please check my game I think you forgot
game 98828 i win with goal against bot_OpFor2008P2 with silver

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by novacat on May 14th, 2009, 7:15am
Finally got a no-capture immobilization!
game 105975; clueless2007fast vs novacat* silver wins by immobilization in 59 moves.

Mistre, I stopped playing Arimaa because I got too busy working my way through college.  I had the homepage tabbed though, and saw it recently when I built a new computer and wanted to see what tabs I had on my old one.
I saw the bot ladder and decided I had to beat it!

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on May 27th, 2009, 3:00pm
Novacat, it is good to know that Arimaa has some enduring draw, even for players who have drifted away from regular games.  I expect that the publication of boxed Arimaa sets will entice many new people to play on arimaa.com, but your case makes me think that we might also see a surge of returning players.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Sie on Jun 6th, 2009, 12:37am
Please check game 130699 (bot_Sharp2008P1 vs Sie). I think it's a new fastest win by goal record.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Simon on Jun 6th, 2009, 12:22pm
Sie, did you mean game 108156 (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=108156)? It's better to use the number of the finished game rather than the number of the game table, since it's easier to look up.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Sie on Jun 10th, 2009, 9:14am
Yes, Simon, this was it. Where can I find the finished game number?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Simon on Jun 11th, 2009, 9:53am
Just check the recent games list (or your own personal recent games list) after you finish the game.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Kraizy_Dave on Jun 11th, 2009, 1:28pm
A couple of no piece capture immobilizations that I forgot to update a while back:

games
85730 vs arimaa score (I like this one :D) 41 moves
85900 vs bomb2005blitz 31 moves

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Kraizy_Dave on Jun 16th, 2009, 12:51pm
no piece capture imobilisation

horse horse camel dog dog handicap

game archive 109136

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by NJames on Oct 9th, 2011, 2:58pm
I'd like to suggest game 198757 as a bot-bashing record. Playing silver, I immobilized Sharp2008p2 in 29 moves.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Eltripas on Oct 9th, 2011, 6:31pm
The bot bashers records are not updated:

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=194747&s=b

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by NJames on Oct 9th, 2011, 11:17pm
Bummer. Someone should update the bot bashing page to indicate that it's not a current contest.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by novacat on Oct 10th, 2011, 4:25am
I notice the link under "Contests" in the game room links to the old page rather than the new, slightly more up to date, page here http://arimaa.com/arimaa/mwiki/index.php/Bot_Bashers.

The contest is still technically active.  The wiki page is in fact up to date with all posted game records except for a few on this forum page.  Of course there have been no games submitted in over two years, so there are probably several new records like the one Eltripas has linked.

Seeing as it has been so long since the last update, it may be necessary to get a new volunteer to be in charge of updating the page.  

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Oct 10th, 2011, 9:41am
I kept it up for a while, but I don't have any interest in doing so anymore.  If anyone is interested in updating the page, the password is wiki123.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 10th, 2011, 11:53am
The records ought to be maintained by someone who has an active interest in setting botbashing records himself.  For my part, I find the art of Arimaa per se to be more rewarding and engaging than the art of exploiting bot weaknesses.  In the long run, opponents that don't change and adapt are bound to be less entertaining than humans who do.  Perhaps mistre "graduated" from botbashing by getting too good at Arimaa.  But in the short run it can be a lot of fun to try to win ever more gloriously against a fixed opponent.  Someone who digs it could do the community a fine service by bringing the botbashing page up to date and maintaining it actively.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Oct 11th, 2011, 8:35am

on 10/10/11 at 11:53:44, Fritzlein wrote:
 Perhaps mistre "graduated" from botbashing by getting too good at Arimaa.  


Yes, I would say that comment was fairly accurate.  Other reasons I lost interest were because I felt like I accomplished everything I wanted to with bot bashing and I left the game for a while completely to take a break.  Since starting back up again, my focus and interest has been in other areas.  

It would be great to see some sort of automated record keeping process for bot bashing, but barring that, it would be good for Arimaa if some one would like to step in and keep the records up to date.  There is a whole mess of new bots that don't even have records yet  :o

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by schr66 on May 18th, 2012, 3:38pm
I have stepped in now to maintain the botbashing records for a while. :) Actually I have written a program that generates the records automatically out of the game archives, and also prints the new ones. Using this, many old and new records have been found. The tables are now quite long because all bots available to play are listed.

I was also able to improve some records myself. During these attempts I found out that some older records are not reproducible, seemingly because these bots now run on faster hardware than before. Of course also against bots which greatly vary the setup position the records are hardly reproducible.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ocmiente on May 18th, 2012, 4:27pm
Thanks for updating the records.  

Can you add a table for "Fastest Win by Elimination"?

Does your program detect no-capture immobilization games yet?  The reason I ask is that at least one game is missing from that list.  


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by browni3141 on May 18th, 2012, 7:00pm
I have two no capture immobilizations, which should be three, except that I managed to let my opponent sacrifice a dog :(.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=230036
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=221811

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ginrunner on May 18th, 2012, 10:24pm
I think i have 1 or 2 no capture immobilization somewhere

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by schr66 on May 20th, 2012, 3:49pm
@ocmiente: I already expected that your wishes would come up. But I wanted to wait for the requests. Actually for the pleasure of many I have fulfilled both wishes today.  :D

I have included all empty cells in all three tables for "Fastest Win", so you may now compete in filling the gaps.  :)
I managed to bash GnoBot2010P1 two times today, helped by being very lucky that the bot enabled me to capture its elephant!

Generating the complete list of no-capture immobilizations with the help of my computer program revealed a big surprise: 73 games were found, but only 30 were listed on the old page. Ignoring 3 games (2 against developer bots and 1 achieved by copying all moves from another record game) there are now 70 games listed. These have been played by 23 different people (excluding one against a developer bot).

@browni3141, @ginrunner: now you will find all your records in the updated web page.

!!!!!! It is no longer necessary to post records here, except records involving handicaps !!!!!!

But if I find time, I will manage to meet this challenge too. :)  It needs just a bit more sophisticated programming.

It would be possible even now to generate a list of fastest win by goal without any capture by either side. Should I add this list to the bot bashers page?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by browni3141 on May 20th, 2012, 4:54pm

Quote:
It would be possible even now to generate a list of fastest win by goal without any capture by either side. Should I add this list to the bot bashers page?

Maybe if we're adding so much stuff it should be organized on seperate pages? The bot bashers page is getting quite big.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ocmiente on May 20th, 2012, 11:25pm
Thanks for all the work you did to update this!


on 05/20/12 at 15:49:20, schr66 wrote:
It would be possible even now to generate a list of fastest win by goal without any capture by either side. Should I add this list to the bot bashers page?


Yes, please.  It did occur to me to ask earlier, but I didn't want to ask for too much :)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on May 21st, 2012, 8:56am
Excellent schr66!

I really appreciate you taking this on and improving it.  Having a computer program automatically generate records is a very welcome addition.

A few questions - how often are you planning on running the program?  Weekly?  Bi-Weekly?  Monthly?  It would be nice to run it on a set schedule and then be able to generate a list of new records and post to this page so everyone can see which records have been beaten each time the program is run.

Also, can you run a query for all games that were won by elimination with only opponents rabbits captured and no other opponent pieces?  I did this a few times and I am not sure if anyone else has or has even tried to.  I would call it "Win by Elimination, rabbits-only".

Finally, I agree that the page is getting quite lengthy - It would be neat to see sub-pages as tabs within the main page but I am not sure the wiki supports that format.

Once again, thanks for taking this on and keep up the good work!

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by schr66 on May 24th, 2012, 7:19am
@ocmiente
I have now added the category "FASTEST WIN BY GOAL WITHOUT CAPTURE" to the Bot Bashers page. This table contains many empty places yet, so this is an opportunity even for weaker players to set new records here.


Quote:
A few questions - how often are you planning on running the program?  Weekly?  Bi-Weekly?  Monthly?  It would be nice to run it on a set schedule and then be able to generate a list of new records and post to this page so everyone can see which records have been beaten each time the program is run.

I may run the program about bi-weekly. It will repeatedly cost some time though, so I am thinking about possibilites to automatize the process even more. With the help of omar this should be possible.
Concerning the list of changes I think this is not necessary because one can easily see these using the View History tab and the Compare selected revisions button of the Wiki.
This keeps the forum topic cleaner as well.


Quote:
Also, can you run a query for all games that were won by elimination with only opponents rabbits captured and no other opponent pieces?  I did this a few times and I am not sure if anyone else has or has even tried to.  I would call it "Win by Elimination, rabbits-only".

Well, this is a very special wish. Do other people too have interest in this? Also it is not so easy to program. So, maybe later.  :)


Quote:
Finally, I agree that the page is getting quite lengthy - It would be neat to see sub-pages as tabs within the main page but I am not sure the wiki supports that format.

I agree but I don't know either how to do that. I am no expert in wikimedia. Any help would be appreciated here.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by schr66 on May 26th, 2012, 8:08am
Now I have managed to generate all handicap games out of the game archives by my program. I have also updated the table in section "LARGEST HANDICAP WIN". The old table contained 29 bots and only 6 players. The new table contains 61 bots and 23 players. After reading the discussion about "handicap order - what beats what?" in this forum I decided to list two records for 10 of the bots.
I found 3 cases where the old record was not correct, because an older one was better but not known: both records against Clueless2006P2 (also the only ones with all rabbits sacrificed) and the record by 99of9 against Arimaazilla. On the other side, NO record of the old table was improved by a later one. So, the bot bashers did a very good job against the older bots, especially Arimabuff.

I also found two more handicap no-capture immobilizations.

Now finally ALL records listed on the bot bashers page have been updated and are complete because all have been generated automatically. And it is easy to update them regularly using my software. Phew!  8)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on May 26th, 2012, 10:05am
Wow, lots of handicap records are available for the taking.  Maybe this will coax Arimabuff out of retirement!

One minor issue with the page... I realize that you ordered the bots in alphabetical order to make sure that you didn't miss any, but in most cases it makes sense to order them in other ways - either by grouping bots by speeds, fewest moves to most moves, largest handicap to smallest handicap, etc.  

Perhaps, the bot bashers page or pages (if split into multiples) should be housed on the main site and not in the wiki if this gives us more flexibility on how to design it.  Or even it's own website!

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by browni3141 on May 26th, 2012, 8:42pm
I just beat some of Arimaabuff's old records. Maybe he will want to try and get them back  ;). Many of the old records are very solid, but several probably would be beaten easily. The lightning version of bomb didn't even have a handicap record for gold, and I'm assuming it was put up in 2005! I went ahead and took that one.

Edit: There are still developer bot records on the page. Including in the No capture immobilization section where you specifically say that no developer bots are listed. While it's interesting to see those records, and I have three handicap records against weak developer bots, I'm not sure that they should be there.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on May 26th, 2012, 10:41pm
You do realize that you can play games unrated, right?  It is generally encouraged to play handicap games unrated so that the gameroom ratings remain as accurate as possible.


Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by browni3141 on May 26th, 2012, 11:03pm

on 05/26/12 at 22:41:13, mistre wrote:
You do realize that you can play games unrated, right?  It is generally encouraged to play handicap games unrated so that the gameroom ratings remain as accurate as possible.

Who, me? I usually do unless I'm fairly certain that I can win, or it's such a small handicap that it's unlikely to affect the result. I played four simultaneous dog handicap games against weak bots, and I thought I would easily win them all, but I ended up losing one. Is that what you're reffering to? Sure I also played Bomb rated, but I'd guess that a mere dog in a lightning game isn't enough to affect win percentages significantly.
I've been losing a lot of games the past few days, but almost all of them are due to my own in game failures, not because of handicaps.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jun 6th, 2012, 10:43am
Do we have any other game as the one below (Goal, elimination and immobilization)

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=199024

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ocmiente on Jun 6th, 2012, 12:59pm
Yes, there is at least one other (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=132400&s=w).  I suspect there are several more.  

I think it's an interesting ending to a game, but I'm not sure it's worth tracking. The ending itself seems contrived.  Not as bad as, say, ending with all of your pieces in a diagonal, but I think it's more contrived than the other ways to win that are being tracked.  

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Jun 7th, 2012, 10:02am

on 06/06/12 at 12:59:07, ocmiente wrote:
Yes, there is at least one other (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=132400&s=w).  I suspect there are several more.  

I think it's an interesting ending to a game, but I'm not sure it's worth tracking. The ending itself seems contrived.  Not as bad as, say, ending with all of your pieces in a diagonal, but I think it's more contrived than the other ways to win that are being tracked.  

I don't think that it's the "contrivity" that's important. I think it's the actual difficulty and ACTIVE competition involved that make a record worth mentionning. The idea of a record of a few accidents, to say nothing of a record of ONE, is ridiculous.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ocmiente on Jun 7th, 2012, 11:15am

on 06/07/12 at 10:02:51, Arimabuff wrote:
I don't think that it's the "contrivity" that's important. I think it's the actual difficulty and ACTIVE competition involved that make a record worth mentionning. The idea of a record of a few accidents, to say nothing of a record of ONE, is ridiculous.


Yes, I agree with that.  I found that when trying to end a game in this particular way, it was not as interesting as I thought it would be.  To your point, I would question whether  competing to end a game in this way (goal, immobilization, elimination) would attract that many people.  My few attempts satisfied me to the point that my interest in doing it again is gone.  Winning by goal with no captures, on the other hand, still interests me.

What I would find incredibly interesting is if someone could win by goal, immobilization, and elimination, AND no captures on either side.  I don't expect anyone has ever done that.  I would be happy to be proven wrong. Or, maybe that's just a puzzle.  Set up a board position that could lead to such a thing.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by tize on Jun 7th, 2012, 11:58am

on 06/07/12 at 11:15:34, ocmiente wrote:
What I would find incredibly interesting is if someone could win by goal, immobilization, and elimination, AND no captures on either side.


Hmm, eliminating the opponent without capturing any rabbits.  :D
I'd say that that would be very interesting to see.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ocmiente on Jun 7th, 2012, 12:11pm
:-[
too early in the morning for me.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by tize on Jun 7th, 2012, 1:06pm
Maybe I should confess that I started by thinking that it would be very easy to set up such a puzzle...  :)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by rbarreira on Jun 7th, 2012, 6:04pm
Well it is possible, depending on the definition of "capture". :P

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jun 8th, 2012, 12:30am
Who has won most bots in each category? (By Goal, By Elimination and By Immobilization) ???

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jun 13th, 2012, 10:12am
Eliminated the bot without capturing any piece, is this a record?

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/opengamewin.cgi?client=1&gameid=234463&role=v&side=b

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by ocmiente on Jun 13th, 2012, 2:02pm

on 06/13/12 at 10:12:11, gurugsk wrote:
Eliminated the bot without capturing any piece, is this a record?

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/opengamewin.cgi?client=1&gameid=234463&role=v&side=b


It's the first time I've seen a game like that.  So, maybe a record of some sort.  

This raises the philosophical question of whether putting your opponent into a position in which the only way for him to move is to lose one of his pieces means that he just lost his piece or that the piece was 'captured'.  

I lean toward saying that the piece was captured when the loss is forced, especially when thinking about the elephant.  The only way to eliminate the elephant is by a blunder, or by forcing your opponent into a position where the only way to move would cause his elephant to be lost.  I would say that the elephant was captured in that case, but maybe there is a better term for it.  Seems kind of like herding an animal into a trap - and I think you herded the rabbits very well in the game you cited.

Practically speaking, searching the database of games for pieces that were captured vs. lost is much more difficult than simply looking to see if any pieces were removed from the board at the end of the game.  

On the other hand...  what you have done is different than how the game is usually played, so maybe the 'captured' vs. 'lost' distinction is worth making.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Jun 14th, 2012, 5:18am

on 06/13/12 at 14:02:07, ocmiente wrote:
It's the first time I've seen a game like that.  So, maybe a record of some sort.  

This raises the philosophical question of whether putting your opponent into a position in which the only way for him to move is to lose one of his pieces means that he just lost his piece or that the piece was 'captured'.  

I lean toward saying that the piece was captured when the loss is forced, especially when thinking about the elephant.  The only way to eliminate the elephant is by a blunder, or by forcing your opponent into a position where the only way to move would cause his elephant to be lost.  I would say that the elephant was captured in that case, but maybe there is a better term for it.  Seems kind of like herding an animal into a trap - and I think you herded the rabbits very well in the game you cited.

Practically speaking, searching the database of games for pieces that were captured vs. lost is much more difficult than simply looking to see if any pieces were removed from the board at the end of the game.  

On the other hand...  what you have done is different than how the game is usually played, so maybe the 'captured' vs. 'lost' distinction is worth making.

It's a record of sorts but so is playing an entire game without moving your camel or a game where you keep the distance between your horses constant... the possibilities are endless...

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Jun 14th, 2012, 9:36am
I see it more as a specific challenge than a single record.  If you want to organize a challenge contest like idahoev did back in 2006 with some kind of conditions, you might get some interest, depending on what the conditions are.

The hard part is to make the conditions difficult enough to be a challenge, but also not so obscure that it will still appeal to the most number of potential challengers and not take an inordinate amount of moves to achieve.



Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Jun 14th, 2012, 1:29pm

on 06/14/12 at 09:36:06, mistre wrote:
I see it more as a specific challenge than a single record.  If you want to organize a challenge contest like idahoev did back in 2006 with some kind of conditions, you might get some interest, depending on what the conditions are.

The hard part is to make the conditions difficult enough to be a challenge, but also not so obscure that it will still appeal to the most number of potential challengers and not take an inordinate amount of moves to achieve.

I have a very bad memory of idahoev's challenge because even though I won the all the bots even the ones where a record had been set previously by others and as agreed I won the prize twice. Not only did he manage NOT to give me the prize and not praise me for my accomplishment but he later insulted me by saying that I had ruined the challenge by discouraging anybody else from playing it. So, don't talk to me about idahoev, he's a despicable individual not worth the effort to spit on him.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by browni3141 on Jun 14th, 2012, 6:42pm
I would certainly participate in any sort of friendly competition or "challenge". I can't think of any suitable challenge conditions though. It's been so long that I don't think many would mind if the same conditions were used.
I will warn you all that I'm the type to take something like this a bit to seriously and work obsessively to win it, especially if there is other competition nearly as driven to win as I am.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jun 15th, 2012, 4:27am
How about a tournament to beat the most number of bots by elimination within a stipulated time.

If 2 or more person has beaten the same number of bot, tie-breaker based on least average number of moves played.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Manuel on Jun 15th, 2012, 6:42am
I would say that beating a bot by elimination without any other constraints (like no other captures, within a certain number of moves, etc.) is hardly a challenge: When you are beating the bot, just don't go for the goal but keep on capturing its pieces...

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Jun 15th, 2012, 8:32am

on 06/15/12 at 06:42:25, Manuel wrote:
I would say that beating a bot by elimination without any other constraints (like no other captures, within a certain number of moves, etc.) is hardly a challenge: When you are beating the bot, just don't go for the goal but keep on capturing its pieces...

Ironically, the two challenges that idaohev set were intriguing enough and made for some interesting games . One was to win against a bot without playing more than three steps in a move (without the bot being restricted the same way as goes without saying  ;)) and the second was even more difficult, it was to win without your elephant even going beyond your fourth row (so the elephant would be for defensive purposes only). The three step moves forced people to find some really inventive ways to do what would have been a piece of cake with four steps for instance. I did like these challenges, in spite of the rest.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jun 21st, 2012, 12:36pm
I have few question:

Who has taken less number of games to complete the bot ladder?
Who has completed it in the shorter period? and
Who has completed in fewest moves?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by hyperpape on Jun 21st, 2012, 1:20pm
I think Tharkun was the fastest.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Jun 21st, 2012, 2:46pm

on 06/21/12 at 13:20:45, hyperpape wrote:
I think Tharkun was the fastest.

Fastest in number of days to complete it or games or of added duration of the games or of total numbers of moves of all the games or of the added time it took him to start a game after he logged on?

;)

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by schr66 on Jun 27th, 2012, 11:58am

on 06/13/12 at 10:12:11, gurugsk wrote:
Eliminated the bot without capturing any piece, is this a record?

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/opengamewin.cgi?client=1&gameid=234463&role=v&side=b


I have added this game to the page "Unusual Games" in the ArimaaWiki.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by schr66 on Jun 27th, 2012, 12:23pm

on 06/06/12 at 10:43:53, gurugsk wrote:
Do we have any other game as the one below (Goal, elimination and immobilization)

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=199024


I added your game and the game of ocmiente to the ArimaaWiki page "Unusual Games" in section "Unusual Endings".

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jul 2nd, 2012, 8:56am
Few interesting games by Christian (odin73)

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=236730
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=236826

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jul 2nd, 2012, 8:57am
Has anyone done the double elimination and double immobilization in one move ???

And who will be declared as "Winner" on both cases?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Hippo on Jul 2nd, 2012, 3:31pm

on 07/02/12 at 08:57:48, gurugsk wrote:
Has anyone done the double elimination and double immobilization in one move ???

And who will be declared as "Winner" on both cases?


Don't know.
[edit]aaaa[/edit] did it as shown 2 posts later ;)

The player who made the move. ... you mean making board empty?
[edit]
Oh there could be double immobilization without annihilation. But that requires passivity of the player with the strongest piece.

MhC
hD
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[/edit]

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jul 3rd, 2012, 11:18am
I believe there will be more games with double elimination:

The link to one which I recently achieved:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=237014      ;D

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by aaaa on Jul 3rd, 2012, 11:29am
Is this (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=92455) what you're referring to?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Jul 4th, 2012, 12:51am
Yes, that's the one. Great game...

Do we have any more games like this???

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by aaaa on Jul 4th, 2012, 8:05am
It's probably not what you're looking for, but here (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=125062) is another, much more impressive instance of repeating a position (and side to move) that existed before all the pieces were set up.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by schr66 on Aug 18th, 2012, 10:46am
I have added a new section to the Bot Bashers wiki page:

PLAYERS HOLDING MOST RECORDS ON THIS PAGE

Arimabuff:     83
joe:                  62
mistre:         56
browni3141:  35
Arimanator:   34
...

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Arimabuff on Aug 29th, 2012, 10:32am

on 08/18/12 at 10:46:16, schr66 wrote:
I have added a new section to the Bot Bashers wiki page:

PLAYERS HOLDING MOST RECORDS ON THIS PAGE

Arimabuff:     83
joe:                  62
mistre:         56
browni3141:  35
Arimanator:   34
...

Arimabuff and Arimanator are only one person, IE me. ;)

That means that in total I still hold 117 records!!!

Yay me!!! ;D

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by browni3141 on Aug 29th, 2012, 8:27pm

on 08/29/12 at 10:32:01, Arimabuff wrote:
Arimabuff and Arimanator are only one person, IE me. ;)

That means that in total I still hold 117 records!!!

Yay me!!! ;D

For now...

Seriously though, some of those old ones you have probably aren't possible to beat.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on Dec 10th, 2012, 8:06am
Bot bashing has been updated almost 3 moths earlier. When will be the next update?

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by mistre on Feb 3rd, 2014, 10:59pm
The records have not been updated in almost a year now.  Is anyone willing to pick up the mantle from Schr66?   He designed a program that enabled auto updating of the records, but he has been MIA for some time now.  Not sure if there is a way to contact him or if someone else could write a similar program.

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by Ail on Feb 5th, 2014, 3:41pm

on 07/04/12 at 08:05:53, aaaa wrote:
It's probably not what you're looking for, but here (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=125062) is another, much more impressive instance of repeating a position (and side to move) that existed before all the pieces were set up.

That was totally amazing! I would even call it a piece of art! :D

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by gurugsk on May 13th, 2015, 8:29am
It's more than 2 years now. Someone willing to update the Bot Basher page??? ???

Title: Re: Announce Bot Bashing Record
Post by deep_blue on Jun 27th, 2015, 6:33pm
For the first time I managed to setup a 99of9 setup in enemy half: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=351626 (even a postal game)



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