General game playing engine with Shogi variants included.

[captbirdseye]

I'm cross-posting this announcement (by another user) from the Board Games Geek Shogi forum.

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Stephen Tavener's program Ai Ai is a Java-based general game playing engine. Recently a lot of Shogi variants were added to Ai Ai. There is also online play available.

Link to Ai Ai: http://mrraow.com/index.php/aiai-home/aiai/

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I haven't tried to install/use it yet, but it looks rather interesting?

[DARREN PAULL]

 Thanks captbirdseye,

That does sound interesting !

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[h.g.m...@hccnet.nl]

I have tried it out a bit, and although I have no doubt that this will become great software, it still seems to be in a somewhat embrionic state at the moment. At least as far as the AI is concerned; I haven't tried the on-line capabilities.

For Chu Shogi at least the interactive diagram in the article at chessvariants.com played significantly stronger. (Although still like an idiot by human standards. But I only tried it with sub-second thinking (against 30 sec for Ai Ai).) I never tried to play the larger Shogi variants against the diagram (which cannot do games with piece drops yet).

For those interested in a moderate-strength computer opponent in Tenjiku Shogi: there now is a Jocly implementation for that, at http://hgm.nubati.net/jocly/ . Jocly also plays mini-Shogi, Tori Shogi, Chu Shogi and regular Shogi there.

Op zo., jun. 6, 2021 om 07:03, DARREN PAULL <sundo...@hotmail.com> schreef:

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[captbirdseye]

> On Monday, 7 June 2021 at 16:22:31 UTC+1 H.G.Muller wrote:

> I have tried it out a bit, and although I have no doubt that this will become great software.

Thanks very much for that report. I don't have much time at the moment to investigate this (not sure I

have the computing expertise to implement the system either!).