[LRUG] Battleships last night

David Salgado david at digitalronin.com
Wed Oct 12 03:01:29 PDT 2011


Have you got some stats of a human playing, for comparison?

D

On 12 October 2011 09:35, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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