The funny thing is, that in computer go there are no goals, except winning.
And therefore, the reason for a win cannot be determined.
One crude measure might be to use stronger attacking moves in the
playouts, when the winrate is low.
unrelated:
Does anyone know if the successful Arimaa bot
Hi Darren,
wow, thanks for the interesting news.
On
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2015/showGames.cgi
the games can be replayed.
bot_sharp won all three games of round 1 and also
all three games of round 2.
In round 3 the bot beat the medium strength human,
but lost to the weak one
Sorry for wrong format in my posting.
Here it is in txt-style.
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Hello,
I had just looked at the ratings of the players at the start of
the match:
2623 Browni...
2262 Harvetsnow
2181 ChessandGo
My term weak was meant only relative to the
Sorry, I neglected to specify: Chessandgo = Jean Daligault.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Justin Blank justin.bl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Not sure where you got that idea. Chessandgo won several Championships.
He's probably the second or third best human player, after Matthew Brown,
and
That's a reasonable assumption, but those are gameroom ratings, which
Arimaa players typically don't weight too heavily.
It's too easy to get inflated ratings playing against bots that you can
reliably beat, and the results have no history, unlike WHR ratings, which
means that playing repeatedly
Not sure where you got that idea. Chessandgo won several Championships.
He's probably the second or third best human player, after Matthew Brown,
and possibly Hirohumi Takahashi, who disappeared after the 2012
championship.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa#World_Championship
2.
On
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2015/showGames.cgi
the games can be replayed.
That's nice. Arimaa looks like a rather tedious game to actually play
though.
I have never played it, but the idea seems to be to take the opponents
camel hostage at a sinkhole, and then go bossing around
Hello,
I had just looked at the ratings of the players at the start of
the match:
2623 Browni...
2262 Harvetsnow
2181 ChessandGo
My term waek was meant only relative to the two other humans
in the competition. Of course, I would likely have no chance
against all three.
Regards,
For reference here's a much better set of Arimaa ratings using WHR
http://home.scarlet.be/~woh/whr/whrh.htm
Currently:
Rank Player Rating
1browni3141 2822.3
4chessandgo 2499.8
13 harvestsnow 2323.3
Also of note is browni3141 just won the world championship for this year
and
I played few games against bots in arimaa.com and they seemed to react. I
think the eval can be used for that?
I did not find the game interesting. Just being hard for computers does not
make it fun. So I quit playing after few games
Petri
2015-04-23 18:32 GMT+03:00 Stefan Kaitschick
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