Arimaa is a chess variant playable with a standard chess set, but designed to be difficult for computers such that human players can still out play the computer. Google 'arimaa' for more info.
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 tournament 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/openg ... eid=219456
2011 Arimaa Computer World Championship final game
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Re: 2011 Arimaa Computer World Championship final game
The 2011 Arimaa Computer World Championship was won by the program Sharp developed by David Wu. Second place was Marwin developed by Mattias Hultgren; and third was Clueless developed by Jeff Bacher.
The programs Sharp and Marwin are now going through a screening period until the end of March to determine which program will get to play in the challenge match. Both programs are online for anyone to play and the one which has a better record against human players gets to play in the challenge match.
Both programs are doing very well against the humans:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2011/showBestBot.cgi
It is possible that the $10,000 USD Arimaa challenge prize could be won this year.
The programs Sharp and Marwin are now going through a screening period until the end of March to determine which program will get to play in the challenge match. Both programs are online for anyone to play and the one which has a better record against human players gets to play in the challenge match.
Both programs are doing very well against the humans:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2011/showBestBot.cgi
It is possible that the $10,000 USD Arimaa challenge prize could be won this year.