General Game Playing Competition

[Dave Gomboc]

I was there in person, and was basically liveblogging without a blog. :-). I will be attending the paper presentations on Monday also.

I think I accidentally skipped one of the contests in the finals/consolation section: there was a game where two players placed knights until one attacked another. I missed it, so I don't know if the players alternated moves or played simultaneously. My iPhone battery had run low: thanks to Nathan Sturtevant for lending me his charger.

[Zach Wegner]

I was there in person, and was basically liveblogging without a blog. . I will be attending the paper presentations on Monday also.

I think I accidentally skipped one of the contests in the finals/consolation section: there was a game where two players placed knights until one attacked another. I missed it, so I don't know if the players alternated moves or played simultaneously. My iPhone battery had run low: thanks to Nathan Sturtevant for lending me his charger.

Sounds fun! I had hoped to go there, but my GGP project is very young (I've spent maybe a few weeks on it), and I didn't think I would be able to get it running stably before the competition. I guess I should've tried anyways--looks like I wouldn't have been alone! I'll definitely try and make it next year though, provided the contest is in the same hemisphere.

It's quite possible the game had moves made simultaneously. The game description language has all players moving simultaneously in each game, and for games such as chess the turn-taking is simulated by the side not to move only being able to make a null-move.

Thanks for the info though!