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(Message started by: Zatzdreamworld on Oct 31^st, 2007, 11:06pm)

Title: Is Arimaa Secure ?
Post by Zatzdreamworld on Oct 31^st, 2007, 11:06pm

What if you know the cheats and hack the game "ARIMAA" ;)

Title: Re: Is Arimaa Secure ?
Post by omar on Nov 1^st, 2007, 12:48am

If you figure out the cheats please tell us, we've been looking for them without any luck for several years now :-)

Title: Re: Is Arimaa Secure ?
Post by Zatzdreamworld on Nov 1^st, 2007, 10:26am

How much will you be paying me Omer Bhai if i hack the game ;D

Title: Re: Is Arimaa Secure ?
Post by Fritzlein on Nov 1^st, 2007, 11:26am

on 11/01/07 at 10:26:32, Zatzdreamworld wrote:

How much will you be paying me Omer Bhai if i hack the game ;D

Hopefully you mean "hack the game" in the sense of finding the moves that win every time. If you do that, Omar will pay you $15,000, I will pay you $1,000, and PMertens will pay you $1,000. Just code up the winning strategy and enter it in the Computer Championship this year. That would would be a feat worthy of respect and prize money, because it is actually hard to do.

[EDIT: Oh, I see it was a joke :-)]

Title: Re: Is Arimaa Secure ?
Post by omar on Nov 1^st, 2007, 11:58am

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How much will you be paying me Omer Bhai if i hack the game ;D

Hey Zaheer, I knew it was you all along :-)

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by 'hack the game'. But as Fritzlein mentioned if you write a program to defeat the human players in a challenge match there is a pretty big prize waiting for you.

I hope you're not thinking of trying to look at the client protocol and figure out how you can send moves for your opponent or something like that. If you have time like that I would rather have you helping me write code :-)

Say salam to Zain and your parents for me.

Title: Re: Is Arimaa Secure ?
Post by Zatzdreamworld on Nov 1^st, 2007, 2:27pm

Yaah you got me Omer Bhai. I will do that listen i m still working on it as i finish i hope $15,000 in my account ! (Easy Money )
Thanks a lot see yah soon !