[Kde-games-devel] New AI for bovo

[Pelladi Gabor]

Albert Astals Cid írta:
> Have you mailed Aron about it? The fact that he resigned as maintainer doesn't 
> mean he can't have an opinion to give about your patch.

Yes, I have mailed about it. He said that it works great and is quite tough. He
wanted to integrate my AI but didn't have any time for bovo. I have attached our
conversation. The problems mentioned are resolved now except background
cogitating. That is worked around by disabling the highest difficulties.

> The rest of us here can't really help much, unless someone is a strong bovo 
> player (that i'm not) and wants to try with new AI to see if he sees any 
> difference.
> 
> Besides that, if you could make the AI selectable i would not see any problem 
> in commiting a patch that enables the use of any of the two (which should be 
> the default is a different story :D)

Ok, I will make a GUI option for selecting the AI. I have one more question:
currently it uses the standard c++ library, since i developed this AI originally
for a university contest. Should I eliminate this dependency, to be pure Qt?

    Gabor


> Albert
> 
> A Dissabte, 28 de febrer de 2009, Pelladi Gabor va escriure:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have created a patch for the current bovo trunk that adds a new AI to the
>> game. I have separated the AI implementations from the interface, so the AI
>> engine can be easily replaced. It was easy to do, because Aron Bostrom's
>> code was already written with this in mind. The original implementation is
>> still there in a subfolder next to mine, it can be activated by changing
>> one line.
>>
>> The new AI can be much harder than the original, and it feels like making
>> more "human" moves on easier difficulties. It also adds the ability to set
>> a time limit or cancel thinking, but the GUI does not utilize these
>> abilities yet. It supports everything that is currently working, including
>> demo mode, hints, undo, replay.
>>
>> As far as I know, bovo doesn't have a maintainer currently, since Aron has
>> resigned. So I'm sending the patch to this list. Can somebody please review
>> it? Is it applicable or in which way should it be improved?
>>    Gabor
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