If you are planning to write your first abalone program, you might want to use abmove. It is a small library with a board representation, and code for saving...
MLA 3.0 preview 1 is released (i.e. not the stable version yet), you can download it at: http://mogwai.lunarpages.com/lovely It includes the current status of...
Thanx for all this :) I still dont understand why my new version of the engine beats the previous one lol. Each time I slightly change my amendments to the...
Yeah! MLA 3.0 just killed MLA 2.5.5 finally i get something new. I'm not satisfied by the end of the two games, but yes i found something new for the opening...
Amsterdam 2007 From 2007-06-11 to 2007-06-18, Science Park Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The 15th World Computer-Chess Championship and the 12th...
Cool. How do you do broadside moves? ... Fra: abalone_prog@yahoogroups.com [mailto:abalone_prog@yahoogroups.com] På vegne af mogwaifrance Sendt: 2. september...
i'm now programming an abalone game server with AJAX find it at http://mogsinteractive.net click "se connecter" or the UK flag and then "connect" marbles are...
Hello all! A quick introduction: I am new to the field of Abalone programming. Nevertheless, my goal is clear, I want to create an Abalone engine superior to...
The following abalone_prog poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Have you ever writen a program that plays Abalone? CHOICES AND...
Hi David. I'm not sure I agree that players are not strong yet. It is true that they loose many games to computers. It is also true that there are very few...
I have run some test of Tax 2.0 against Nacre, and the results seem to be that Tax wins most of the time. I have not run enough games to be certain of the...
Hi david and others. My own work with automatic generation of opening book (based on the paper by Michael Buro, 1999) indicated that weak spots in the program...
Hello, you can download MLA 2.5 in its final build (2.5.4). I have a bug fix release to be published soon, but I'm cooking 3.0, and I'm clearly working on an...
Hi David, Thanks a lot for your email and sharing your ideas! Unfortunately I haven't programmed for more than a month and haven't even started to implement...
Hi David. I would like to voulenteer a COM component that adapts abnet to your interface. This way you would be able to play not only windows engines, but also...
Thanks Peer and David for your suggestions! I'm trying to find a more Abalone-specific (kind of sorted) hash-function, to prevent hash collisions. Maybe I'll...
Now, theres is a new version of my engine released last sunday. You can download it for free at : http://www.mogwai.lunarpages.com/lovely/ Be sure you pick the...
As you work with Abalone programming you often have to examine properties of the game, such as how many bits are needed to represent a move or what is the...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the abalone_prog group: Have you ever writen a program that plays Abalone? o Yes. It has even won some...
Hi Tino. I know the question was directed at David, but let me throw in my experience: Yes, transposition tables are definitly worth the effort. It does cost...
Hi Peer, David and Stéphane, Here a sign of life of me: In November I also restarted working on ABA-PRO. Till Xmas I spent much time in finding a better...
Yes, I agree that the statistics I provided it not sufficient to warrant a firm conclusion. On the other hand, I had so many problems with Tax looping...
... Pour la fonction d'évaluation, les deux meilleures strategies (Epaminondas et Hannibal) utilisent à la fois la compacité (calculée fondamentalement...
Thanks. This time I'm able to read the source. It may take a week or so before I have the time to complete the code merge and test, so please have patience. ...
Hi Stéphane I would like to test the program against MLA, AbaPro & Nacre, but have some trouble accessing the source code. I have tried your link, but is...
Hi all, hi Peter, I have just finished porting Peter Tax's Abalone program from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X (technically, it has been carbonized, as they at Apple)....
AbaPro does not have time limits. You have to experiment with the level to find the highest that does not use more than 1 sec (exclusive the marble animation) ...
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