The TCGA 2011 Computer-Games Tournament

Bitboard knowledge base system and elegant search architectures for Connect6

“…There are many strong state-of-the-art Connect6 programs, such as Cloudict.Connect6, Morethanfive, NCTU6, and TD6 [17,18,33,37]. This paper does not compare the performance with them, because the strength of Connect6 programs may mainly depend on the heuristic and evaluation functions and we do not have their functions.…”

“…The proposed methods are implemented on a Connect6 program, named Kavalan. Kavalan won all the silver medals in 2010 Computer Olympiad, 2010/2011 TAAI and 2011 TCGA tournaments [18,33,37,39].…”

An analysis for strength improvement of an MCTS-based program playing Chinese dark chess

“…Another MCTS-based CDC program, named DarkKnight [48], was developed independently by some of the authors of this paper, but it used almost the same weights as in [47], except for reducing them by a factor of 100. The program Diablo won some tournaments [30,39,46,49] in 2011 and 2012, while DarkKnight won two CDC tournaments [42,48] including the 17th Computer Olympiad in 2013. DarkKnight serves as the baseline program in this paper.…”