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(Message started by: Max on Dec 25^th, 2013, 3:39pm)

Title: bot_Maximus
Post by Max on Dec 25^th, 2013, 3:39pm

Hi,

after climbing the advanced bot ladder on my own I am needing a new challenge. So I am developing a bot from scratch.
I am looking forward to how high it can climb the bot ladder.

Its name will be bot_Maximus, a combination from my name "Max" and the "minimax" search it will use. Maximus is also a latin word which means "the biggest".

The bot will be written in JAVA and have the following features:
- generating all possible next moves and playing a "human" one of them (no unneccessary steps (Ra1eew -> Ra1e); not changing the played animal if possible (Ra1e Df2n Rb1e -> Ra1ee Df2n);...)
- special last moves (animal suicides; goaling the opposite rabbit;...)
- setting up the animals (for both colours) and playing the first move (as gold): very fast, because precalculated

bot_Maximus will be playable for humans when there is a bugfree version.

At first I wanted to call it bot_tle becaus I thought it will never play better than an empty bottle. We will see if that name would have fit better.

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Fritzlein on Dec 25^th, 2013, 10:26pm

on 12/25/13 at 15:39:20, Max wrote:

Hi,

after climbing the advanced bot ladder on my own I am needing a new challenge.

Say, if you are really looking for a challenge, I notice that you haven't yet registered for the World Championship. ;)

Quote:

So I am developing a bot from scratch.
I am looking forward to how high it can climb the bot ladder.

Its name will be bot_Maximus, a combination from my name "Max" and the "minimax" search it will use. Maximus is also a latin word which means "the biggest".

I look forward to watching bot_Maximus progress. Thanks for keeping us posted.

Quote:

At first I wanted to call it bot_tle becaus I thought it will never play better than an empty bottle. We will see if that name would have fit better.

If I ever make an Arimaa engine, it will probably be bot_ched. :D

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Arimabuff on Dec 26^th, 2013, 7:38am

on 12/25/13 at 22:26:29, Fritzlein wrote:

...If I ever make an Arimaa engine, it will probably be bot_ched. :D

If I ever did one it'd be more like bot_ulism.
;D

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Max on Dec 26^th, 2013, 10:03am

Ra3n De7s
A moving move ;D

Quote:

Say, if you are really looking for a challenge, I notice that you haven't yet registered for the World Championship.

I will be on vacation for some weeks, so I am not able to take part in the 2014 World Championship. :'(

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Fritzlein on Dec 26^th, 2013, 11:16am

on 12/26/13 at 10:03:33, Max wrote:

Ra3n De7s
A moving move ;D

Heh.

Quote:

I will be on vacation for some weeks, so I am not able to take part in the 2014 World Championship. :'(

Ah, too bad. Your absence is our loss.

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Max on Jan 5^th, 2014, 9:18pm

Maximus played its first game through the gameroom (without any intelligence yet). :D

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Max on Jan 6^th, 2014, 6:18pm

Now Maximus has made its first step on the bot ladder. :P
I have to work much on this bot so that it can win against the next bot on the ladder too.

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Max on Apr 28^th, 2014, 2:21pm

After successfully helping mankind defending the Arimaa Challenge 2014 as a human defender I now have time to improve bot_Maximus.

One thing I did:
Maximus now uses bitboards. That makes the move generation much faster.

Title: Re: bot_Maximus
Post by Max on Aug 2^nd, 2014, 11:40am

bot_Maximus is quitting playing arimma with a rating of 1325 points. It was not fun for him to loose so many times and not reaching a higher rating.

But luckily he has a younger sister who is more intelligent than him. She will start playing arimaa soon and hopefully advance much faster than her older brother did. So look forward to bot_Maxy :-*