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Swynndla
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #75 on: Apr 24th, 2006, 3:22am » |
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Thanks for your kind comments Arimanator 
New Zealand is 11 hours ahead of France. It's 20:20 as I write this message.
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Swynndla
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #76 on: Apr 24th, 2006, 6:06pm » |
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bot_Bomb2005CC
41 moves as gold.
Game 29682 or Game 29680 ... take your pick.
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IdahoEv
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #77 on: Apr 24th, 2006, 8:06pm » |
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Watching those two games, I suspect you can get it down to 37 probably.
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chessandgo
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #78 on: Apr 24th, 2006, 8:06pm » |
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... praise is not even enough ...
Wait Nathan ! If tomorrow you tell us 10 moves, I'm gonna have a heart attack ...
(applause) plop plop plop plop ...
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Fritzlein
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #79 on: Apr 24th, 2006, 8:32pm » |
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on Apr 24th, 2006, 6:06pm, Swynndla wrote:| Game 29682 or Game 29680 ... take your pick. |
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Holy cow. Swynndla was holding the record and decided to break it anyway. And I thought I spent a lot of time on Arimaa.  From one addict to another: I feel your joy (and pain).
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Arimanator
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #80 on: Apr 26th, 2006, 12:02pm » |
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How about some bravos for OLTI who beat Bomblitz in the mind blowing unbelievable 16 moves and playing silver? That deserves a round of applause, don't you guys think?
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Fritzlein
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #81 on: Apr 26th, 2006, 12:57pm » |
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OLTI's game is so mind-blowing I still don't believe it, even though I just replayed the game. I must be hallucinating...
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #82 on: Apr 26th, 2006, 2:50pm » |
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it's ... err ... it's utterly ... totally ... incredibly ... hum ... even in french I lack words ...
 
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OLTI
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #83 on: Apr 26th, 2006, 2:51pm » |
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Thanks. 
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Swynndla
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #85 on: Apr 27th, 2006, 7:01am » |
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bot_Bomb2005CC
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33 moves as gold.
(until OLTI or Arimanator beats me)
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Arimanator
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #86 on: Apr 27th, 2006, 11:11am » |
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Congratulations, You reached perfection for that method and I don't think that I can reproduce OLTI's exploit with CC. Although I may give it a try or maybe OLTI will who knows? 
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IdahoEv
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #87 on: Apr 27th, 2006, 5:59pm » |
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Webpage updated.
That's fantastic, Swynndla. I wonder if you could gain a couple more steps by starting with a cat on a1 instead of a rabbit. Then after pinning the phant on the back rank, you could move the cat backwards from a2 to a1, preventing the sideways rabbit push by the phant that costs you a step on 10b and 21b.
(On some of your other games, the enemy phant did that sideways move as many as 10 or 15 times, costing you a lot of steps.)
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Swynndla
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #88 on: Apr 27th, 2006, 11:22pm » |
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Quite a few others have suggested that too. I've tried it and it has never worked out quite right. The bot is less eager to put it's phant on the back rank with a cat down there to hem it in, and so it keeps it's phant of the 2nd rank (or I haven't been able to get it to work anyways).
Also, Arimanator came up with a very good insight, that when the phant is fully blockaded, the bot's other pieces are all the more aggressive!
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OLTI
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #89 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 8:23am » |
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Game 30058
16 moves as gold
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