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(Message started by: speek on Jul 14^th, 2010, 4:56pm)

Title: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by speek on Jul 14^th, 2010, 4:56pm

About 4-5 years ago, I had about the same idea Omar had - ie, make a game computers can't beat humans at. Now I've discovered Arimaa, and it does it a lot better than the game I came up with! I'm loving it.

I've been a chess player all my life, so learning Arimaa strategies is coming along pretty well for me. I'm eager to start work on a new bot to take a stab at beating some humans.

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by starjots on Jul 14^th, 2010, 6:50pm

Greetings - hope you enjoy it here.

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by Eltripas on Jul 14^th, 2010, 9:53pm

Welcome, you are progressing very fast!

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by speek on Jul 15^th, 2010, 3:44am

So far, been nothing but fun!

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by Fritzlein on Jul 15^th, 2010, 4:30am

Good luck with your bot. Are you contemplating an alpha-beta searcher?

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by RonWeasley on Jul 15^th, 2010, 4:59am

Welcome, speek, Your comment reminds me that computers can't beat humans at quiddich. They won't until they learn how to ride brooms.

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by speek on Jul 15^th, 2010, 11:40am

As for my bot, I've contemplated many things. I will almost certainly do some alpha-beta searching, but I think my focus will be elsewhere. Right now I'm working on a homemade non-academic neural net that I think I'll use as an evaluator. I say "non-academic" because my degree is philosophy and I've never even read a technical book about how exactly neural nets work, but I know the concepts, and I'm a decent programmer.

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by fraaz101 on Aug 7^th, 2010, 9:13am

;) ;) ;)Um hello I'm new to arimaa ;) ;)

Title: Re: Speek here, hello everyone
Post by Fritzlein on Aug 7^th, 2010, 5:37pm

on 08/07/10 at 09:13:04, fraaz101 wrote:

;) ;) ;)Um hello I'm new to arimaa ;) ;)

Welcome!