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
, Ingo.
Gesendet:Donnerstag, 23. April 2015 um 19:54 Uhr
Von:Justin Blank justin.bl...@gmail.com
An:computer-go@computer-go.org
Betreff:Re: [Computer-go] Arimaa bot notably stronger
Not sure where you got that idea. Chessandgo won several Championships. Hes probably the second or third best human
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
My reading of the material currently available is that the big advance was
to forward prune a lot of moves based on simple utility metrics.
Moves that don't do something are thrown out.
A reasonable idea, but the utility metrics are specific to arimaa;
and even for the general idea, it's hard
