[LRUG] Battleships last night

[Roland Swingler]

Seem to remember seeing somewhere in researching this that a v. good
AI player should get it down to about 39 moves, so interesting to see
these numbers.

R

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Paul Battley <pbattley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've added all the contestants from Monday night to my repository (in
> the contestants directory) and added my fitness script in bin/.
>
> I ran the fitness script (which finds how long it takes each player to
> sink all the ships on a pre-generated set of 100 random layouts)
> against each player, and the results are here: http://bit.ly/q5IlaE
>
> Some of the players crashed, and one took so long that I had to kill
> it. I haven't looked into why they crashed.
>
> There's not much (except efficiency!) to separate the top three
> players, and I suspect that any one of them could have won if the draw
> had turned out differently.
>
> Paul.
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