From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T22:43:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Fico 0.1.0

Glenn Parker wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Uh, from what I can see, Havannah is definitely a non-trivial game, on 
> the same level as Go or Chess.  You'll need a lot more than 48 hours to 
> code up a decent player that doesn't run forever before spitting out a 
> move.

True, but this would be an AI vs. AI challenge meaning that every small 
advantage you have will do lots to your results.

The reason why I think this game would be so well-suited because it is 
reasonably simple at core -- the dumbest player would just randomly put 
pieces onto unpopulated fields. Compare that to chess where there is 
relatively complex rules that all AIs have to know in order to play at 
all. Sure, it is way deeper than the Rock, Paper, Scissors challenge we 
did earlier, but I think that that would make it more interesting.

I think the goal would be having a simple strategy that works out well 
instead of implementing another Deepblue.