From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T05:11:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Fico 0.1.0

Urban Hafner 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.

Writing an AI for that game would be a wonderful Quiz topic. You'd just 
need to implement an API for doing a turn and the game. However, for 
this one it might actually be a good idea to disallow cheating by 
changing your opponent or by using its internal state.