The Slashdot article was low on info, but an Arimaa program, Sharp, apparently beat the humans to win the $12000 prize described here: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2015/
There is some description of what it did to improve here: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=devTalk;action=display;num=1429402345;start=1#1 To my untrained eye it looks like they are all game-specific, rather than something we could steal from to use in other games and other domains :-) Darren -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer My new book: Data Push Apps with HTML5 SSE Published by O'Reilly: (ask me for a discount code!) http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030928.do Also on Amazon and at all good booksellers! _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
