Boffins needed 36 computer cluster to solve ancient board game
Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 13 September 2002 Page Views: 1375
FunBoffins have harnessed advanced computer techniques to devise how to play a perfect game of Awari, an ancient board game originating in Africa that is more than 3,500 years old, for the first time.Awari is a two-player game where both players own six pits, in which stones are kept. These 48 stones are sown around over the pits, and can be captured according to the rules of the game. The objective of the game is to capture more than 24 stones.
Although the rules are simple, the game requires deep strategic insight to be played well.
Dutch computer scientists from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam solved the game by developing a program that computes the best move and eventual outcome for all 889,063,398,406 positions that can possibly occur in a game. If played perfectly by both players, Awari results in a draw.
By John Leyden
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