Games of Strategy
This page provides a quick reference to some handy resources associated with games of strategy. The games covered are all two-player, perfect information, zero-sum, deterministic games and include:
Noughts & Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe)
The following results were obtained by playing many games between automated players of equal skill. Level 0 players move randomly, level 1 players move randomly with the exception that they will complete a line (and thus win the game) if possible. Player 1 is the player who makes the first move.
| Level 0*
Players | Level 1&
Players
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| Win for Player 1 | 0.58489 | 0.67
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| Draw | 0.12712 | 0.07
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| Win for Player 2 | 0.28799 | 0.26
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* Level 0 results from 11 900 000 games between randomly moving players.
& Level 1 results reported by Shaun Press. Unknown number of games.
Dots-and-Boxes
Rules
Basic Strategies and Their Winning Proportions
Othello (Reversi)
Chess
The FIDE Laws of Chess.
How-Hie Ling's variation known as Chessling.
Go (Wei-Qi, Wei-Chi, Baduk)
An introduction to Go in postscript.
Igo - a good introduction to Go, including a tutorial and a weak opponent (for any MS-DOS machine, need PKUNZIP to uncompress it).
American Go Association (AGA) Rules of Go.
Home page of the Australian Go Association.
Join the COMPUTER-GO Mailing List.
Jay Burmeister's Research Page.
Play Go live on the internet at the No Name Go Server (not the Internet Go Server).
How-Hie Ling's list of Go Strategies/Tactics.
Comparison of Go & Chess from a programming perspective.
David Fotland's Summary of Computer Go Techniques.
J.W. & S. Hardy distribute Go products in Australia.
Go in Canberra
- Go equipment can be purchased in Canberra from the "Games Cupboard" in the Woden Shopping Centre, and the "Logical Choice" games shop in The Canberra Centre.
- The Canberra Library System has several Go books which can be borrowed.
- All Go related books in the ANU Library System are "missing" except for a Japanese Ministry of Tourism propaganda booklet published in 1939.
This page is maintained by Lex Weaver. Please mail any comments, suggestions, or problems to lex@cs.anu.edu.au
October 4, 1996