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Computer Beats Humans At Arimaa

Posted by timothy on from the call-back-when-it-can-make-a-good-egg-cream dept.

An anonymous reader writes A computer engine has beaten humans at Arimaa, an abstract strategy game, in the official human–computer challenge of the year. Sharp, as the bot is called, had to beat each of three strong human players in a best 2-out-3 contest and managed to sweep the first two rounds, thereby already guaranteeing victory. Its developer David Wu will receive a $12,000 prize, contingent on him submitting a paper describing the program to the International Computer Games Association.

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  1. discussion way too premature by epine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is the most substantive bit I was able to find, a forum post by David Jian Wu from eariler today:

    Thanks for the questions!

    I can't even find a discussion of the winning games by someone who knows the game and its strategic evolution.

    Interesting, but at present there's nothing much to discuss here.