nine men's morris

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over 2 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: It will not be easy for bots to find a way to win ! Many draw @ this game. Thanks for your contribution Dartisan

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Thanks

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: Ancient game. Still fun.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Thanks

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Approved 7 months ago.Time flies...

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Yes I know, too fast these days :-) Sorry to let you wait so long.

leojean890 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: I tried and appreciate this board game and would like to go on improving my AI on real arena.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Thanks

CodinBot Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Just another interesting board game! Cheers!

dAd0qbu Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Very good!

trulynameless. Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Nice contribution!

blackslex Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Nice

cazanov Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Nice contribution ! wow

Sab_S Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Very nice

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Release date in September due holidays ;-)

CodinBot Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

Dadi15 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Awesome

Nutnai Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

wow

VarinPond Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

wow tummai

Demonly7 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Nice

inferninja Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

amazing!

Duculet Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Very useful for learning AI related concepts. :)

Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

love it

mkUltra Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Awesome!

CodinBot Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

HeliosLive Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

cool!

PhuRiNaT Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Nice

Nostale Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Nice!

Pmimo Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Nice contribution !

sprkrd Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Nine men morris is a solved game, isn't it? I'm not opposed to include a solved game in CG, but the following issues have to be considered: (1) is the game solvable within the CG time and memory constraints? I think the answer is yes. (2) If the answer to the previous question is yes, is it OK that the top players games will always end in a draw? The ranking will be quite irrelevant. If the author/moderators don't think these issues are important, then it is a fine contribution. Mind you, this opens the door for multitude of other solved games.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

I agree on the point, that the game is solved, as you can see on https://en.wikipedia.org/.... Some other games on CodinGame you find also on the list. Still I think the different phases and winning condition by taking stones or blocking movements and the time limit 50ms could keep it challenging. I also agree, draws are in this game more frequent than other board games , this by it's nature. How it will finally affect the ranking, I think still the top Bots will not be based on randomness but by calculation.

abstractHunter Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

very nice game, i like it

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Breaking changes, new input fields during initialization for neighboring fields.

Butanium Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Nice game ! I don't know what others think, but I think it'll be nice if you sent the neighbors of each cell at the beginning of the game (as they did for this spring challenge for example). So that if people want to calculate themself some possible move from a position it'll be easier. For example to do a Monte Carlo Tree Search it'd be helpful

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Thanks for feedback, but there are already the last movement, the list of all stones on fields and the list of all possible movements. These informations keep an easy entry (as Ultimate TicTacToe) and keep all possibilities for custom implementations for the personal AI.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Updated parts of game and text.

Astrobytes Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Thanks for bringing it back, we were wondering what happened with the game :) Will test soon!

MSmits Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Textual error: Move stone When all stones are placed, the player can move one stone per turn and to one adjusting free field Probably should be: Move stone When all stones are placed, the player can move one stone per turn to a neighbouring free field. EDIT: I see a few more errors like this, though the one above is the most problematic one. Before it gets approved, someone should go through the text and fix them. Let me know if you want me to do this.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Thanks, I have corrected. When you see other points, your welcomed to correct them, or give me any feedback and I will do as fast as possible. All feedback is appreciated.

leojean890 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: I tried and appreciate this board game and would like to go on improving my AI on real arena.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Thanks

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: Nice board game. Love the idea that is was already played in very ancient times.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Thanks

jacek Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Hello, is there some 3-fold repetition detection for a draw, or game will be in endless cycles until max rounds are used?

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Hi, there is currently no repetition detection, in case the game is not won until max rounds, it ends in a draw.

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

How about displaying the name of the places. It would greatly help to visually interpret the text input.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Currently these informations are in the game summary like: Game Summary: Player Default played (PLACE C3) But I can take a look to place the information also on the graphical Interface. Currently I check more the engine for ensure that it is stable and bugfree. How do you like the base gameplay, say the ruleset for an AI engine?

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Hello Dartisan, Would be worth indicating that 0 is white and 1 is black. So the first player to play is 1, not quite usual in cg.

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Yes, I had seen this too, would investigate it later, for sure linked in the input/output operations, the current order is not on purpose, but would be fixed.

Illedan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

You need to provide the board as in put each round IMO. List of: 0: empty 1: my piece 2: enemy piece

Dartisan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Thanks for your feedback, I will consider it, when I see more interest in the game. Perhaps also to consider, as the computing time is limited, you lose more time, in reading and initialising on each turn the board than in reading and executing the last move on your tracked board. Had the same reflection in proposing the possible moves, it makes the game more friendly to enter, but has a cost for the ones try to calculate the max of possibilities.

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