From: Edgardo Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T01:01:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Fico 0.1.0

On Apr 10, 2005 4:34 PM, Urban Hafner <urban@bettong.net> wrote:
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> This is the announcement for the first version of Fico.
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> Fico is a ruby program playing the board game Havannah[1].
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> The aim is to write a fairly strong AI for the game. At the moment the
> only features are that the program can play according to the rules and
> that a random player exists.
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Check this out:

http://www.mindsports.net/index-mindsports.html

"Havannah is a pencil and paper game the rules of which can be
understood by any eight year old in a minute or so. The inventor has,
in the summer 2002 issue of Abstract Games, put � 1000.- prize money
on a program that can beat him one out of ten games within the next
decade"

Cheers,
Ed
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