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(Message started by: Ikki on Mar 14^th, 2013, 7:57pm)

Title: Bot programming: where to start ?
Post by Ikki on Mar 14^th, 2013, 7:57pm

Hi,

everybody, I'm a computer scientist preparing a Master project. It will be about programming an Arimaa's bot.

I'd like to know what would be a good starting point to do so ? I think it'd be interesting to begin with open source bots that are already available. What's your opinion.

I've got knowledge about C, C++, Java, Matlab and a few other languages.

Best regards.

Title: Re: Bot programming: where to start ?
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 15^th, 2013, 9:51am

Have you seen the sample bots here? http://arimaa.com/arimaa/download/

Title: Re: Bot programming: where to start ?
Post by Ikki on Mar 15^th, 2013, 10:30am

on 03/15/13 at 09:51:38, Fritzlein wrote:

Have you seen the sample bots here? http://arimaa.com/arimaa/download/

Yes I've seen that there is already quite a lot of material.

I would I've liked to know a good starting point.

If I'm correct, most of the bots provided there are "ready to play". You just need to connect to the AIE and that's it. Am I correct ?

Do you have any recommandation, not to do useless work, beginning the wrong way or do time costly mistakes.

Thanks !

Title: Re: Bot programming: where to start ?
Post by aaaa on Mar 15^th, 2013, 2:06pm

The absolutely best resource for board game AI programming has to be the Chess Programming Wiki (http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/).

Title: Re: Bot programming: where to start ?
Post by Ikki on Mar 15^th, 2013, 5:41pm

Thanks for your help, I'll have a look at it. Seems pretty interesting, even if not exactly about Arimaa. I guess that most concept are closely related.