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Arimaa Computer World Championship

  • qixel
  • | Mar 10, 2011 at 7:54 AM
  • | Posted in: Amy's Blog
  • | 557 reads
  • | 2 comments

The final game of the Arimaa Computer World Championship takes place today.

Here is the official press release:

The final game of the computer world championship will be at
11 am EST Thursday March 10th. The live game can be viewed
over the Internet and will feature commentary by top human
players and the bot developers.

The tounament is a floating triple elimination:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/wcc/2011/showGames.cgi

The final game can be viewed here:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/opengamewin.cgi?client=1&role=v&side=w&gameid=219456

Soon after the final game is over the first and second
place computers will be made available in the Arimaa gameroom
for anyone to play against them. The computer which has
the best record against humans will go on to play in this
years challenge match which begins on April 4th. If the
computer defeats the top human players in the challenge match
it's development team will win the $10,000 USD Arimaa
challenge prize.


Comments


  • 13 months ago

    Defence4Gizchehs

    Hey, no External-Comments on this Blog-Post!

    Well, I shall be the first one to Comment ( #1 Xd ).


    Since recently I am a member of

    http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/forum_show.pl 
    ( love the Engines )

    In there, I made these Posts as Gizchehs Defender.. lets find....

    This is the Topic:

    Ok, I don't mean this to Discriminate the Tacticians under us, but why not Create an Official Classic Chess Variant ( Publicly spoken to the World ) where both Queens are gone straight from the beginning?
    I'm sure that more people in the World already thought about this.

    And it's nice for us because the game gets more Slowly, thus Strategic.

    Strategical  Chess

     

    Than, after posts being made by two other Parties , one whom name I may not Call, gave me this Information:


    Playing Xiangqi feels similar to chess, though it is a little bit more tactical in the opening, due to the cannons. I also tried Shogi, but it isn't my thing. I couldn't make sense of the opening, it is so slow, and than, when the attack on the king starts, it is pure tactics.

    If you dislike tactics because you dislike nasty surprises, you could try Go or Arimaa. The positional features in both games are relatively durable, although the ability to read ahead is also a necessity.

     

    Gizchehs Defender to X:


    I have checked Arimaa by reading her Rules and Playing through a few games, but eventually Decided that it is not my thing.

    Arimaa doesn't seems like a Game where you can make one perfect move.
    Furthmore, you make a couple of moves in one Turn in a seemingly Chaotic State.
    She does not seems to be Clarifying either.

    Now that you said the Universe of GO is a Stratagy game, I already knew of that Universum, but never tried it as I didn't know how to make good use of the Internet well in Relationship to GO, and I confused it with another game at first ( you know which :smile: ); And I also had other things in my head I think.
    And Blockades.

    GO seems very nice to me, Really to be Pleasured of due to it's Simplicity and also due to that I like Abstract ( and non-abstract ) art work. I like Figures either!  More over, with GO Black Starts the game... With chess I only play Black as I like to Defend, now I can Defend with White!

    I thank you much, for this Time!


    What are your Experiences from Arima, qixel?
    Has the Chaoticness it seems to have so from first view a Good Reason?

    By the way...  I have Censored - or however you say that - Certain Parts of the Text.

  • 2 years ago

    qixel

    To view the final game of the Arimaa Computer World Championship, click here.

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