[LRUG] Battleship: Ruby Fight Club

[Richard Livsey]

 Will each match between two players consist of just one round to determine the winner?

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On Tuesday, 13 September 2011 at 13:33, Paul Battley wrote:

> For the benefit of anyone who wasn't at LRUG yesterday, or to whom my
> slightly incoherent explanations didn't make sense, here's the plan:
> 
> I've put together a game-playing framework for Battleship. What you
> need to do is to write a Ruby bot to play it. You can do this on your
> own or in a team. At next month's LRUG, we'll have a tournament
> (probably a best-of-three knockout, but I'm open to suggestions) and
> get the winning teams to talk about their strategy and implementation.
> 
> The rules and the framework can be found at
> https://github.com/threedaymonk/battleship . The high level
> explanation is that you need to implement a class called
> [something]Player that implements three methods.
> 
> If you cloned the repository before about lunchtime today, check that
> you've got the latest changes: I've corrected the game play (to let
> players know when they have sunk a ship) and changed the player
> interface slightly.
> 
> Some of you may be tempted to take advantage of Ruby's dynamic nature
> to, er, gain an unfair advantage. Be warned that the class loader and
> game world implementation used on the day of the tournament may not be
> the same as the one currently in my repository!
> 
> We'll be using Ruby 1.9.2 for the tournament.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> PS - There appears to be an exploration of playing strategies in the
> Esperanto version of the Wikipedia page on Battleship - but only in
> the Esperanto version, as far as I can tell.
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