Connect Four: The Tournament Results

[quzah]

congrats PJ, twas a good tournament.

...so whens the next AI tournament gonna start?

I'm trying to work out the details of one. I'll post a new thread if I figure out what exactly I want to do. It'll be a maze solving-round robin-brawling sort of thing. I'll call it "Maze Brawler" and as soon as I figure out how exactly the finer points of it work, I'll put up a thread.

Quzah.

[PJYelton]

Sweet! I'm looking forward to it

[LuckY]

Congratulations on winning the championship.

All I can say for myself is I am thoroughly embarassed. I'll think thrice before I enter another competition like this'n. Good job fellas.

[jlou]

Congratulations PJ. No doubt about this one. Well done.

It was surprising jlou managed to end up third with his minimalist AI. It even had som severe bug that didn't come during the tournament, but here is a screenshot of a game against me:

That's not a bug, it's just overactive loss avoidance!

All I can say for myself is I am thoroughly embarassed. I'll think thrice before I enter another competition like this'n. Good job fellas.

Nahh, more competitors is always better, keep it coming.

[PJYelton]

>>Nahh, more competitors is always better, keep it coming.<<

Agreed! The only problem with the competition was the low turnout. Win or lose its fun and you learn something. Besides, don't expect anymore big wins from me in future competitions. I admit that even though this is definately my strongest AI, I have written a couple connect four AI's in the past in various languages so already had an idea of what works and what doesn't.

[Perspective]

The tournament is over and PJYelton is the undisputed winner (give him some rep)!

and give Sang-drax some rep too for hosting such a cool tournament!

Next time we need to try and get more participants though, maybe rep would be a good insentive. Rep for participants would encourage newbers to submit entries, you dont need a state of the art AI to compete in these types of contests. Anyway, its rep all around from me, ill hit PJ twice for winning though

[MystWind]

but I'll release everyone's code including mine when the contest ends.

I can't wait to see your A.I , I'm an A.I fan !

[Sang-drax]

Everyone's source code is attached a few posts up. Just download it.

[Alastor]

I've downloaded the file, but I don't understand where AI kicks in... could someone please explain in detail how AI in c++ works and how you were supposed to make a program for this competition? Thanks

[Thantos]

Don't bump 6+ month old threads.

If you have a question about AI trying asking in the AI forum!