From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T08:25:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Fico 0.1.0

On Apr 10, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Florian Gro� wrote:

> Urban Hafner wrote:
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>> This is the announcement for the first version of Fico.
>> Fico is a ruby program playing the board game Havannah[1].
>> 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.

I was not familiar with Havannah, until I saw these posts, but I'm all 
for the idea.  If either of you wish to write it up and send it in we 
can do it.

James Edward Gray II