From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T23:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Fico 0.1.0

On Apr 11, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Florian Gro� wrote:

> 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 have been toying with the idea of a Lost Cities tournament quiz, for 
similar reasons.  If you're not familiar with the name, it's a simple 
but super fun card game.  The rules are very basic and we could just 
focus on making a good AI player.

Sounds like at least some of us are interested in this kind of thing...

James Edward Gray II