https://github.com/kwmsmith/bot-rhadamanthus

An Arimaa bot
https://github.com/kwmsmith/bot-rhadamanthus

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An Arimaa bot

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kwmsmith/bot-rhadamanthus
• Owner: kwmsmith
• License: other
• Created: 2014-01-01T21:41:27.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-07-16T15:57:32.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T03:03:46.146Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 789 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE.rst

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README

        
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Rhadamanthus: An Arimaa Bot

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Arimaa_ is a two player, turn-based game with simple rules and deep strategy.

It is significantly `more complex than chess`_, yet is easy for people to

learn and play (and very hard for computers).  You can play people or bots

(like this one) online_.

About the name

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Wikipedia tells us that Rhadamanthus was a "wise king, the son of Zeus and

Europa...According to one account, Rhadamanthus ruled Crete before Minos, and

gave the island an excellent code of laws, which the Spartans were believed to

have copied."

Rhadamanthus is also the sophotech ("smart machine") of the Silver-Gray

Manorial Schola in John C. Wright's far-future space opera, the Golden Age

Trilogy.  He (Rhadamanthus) takes the physical form of a flying penguin, and

is one of the most interesting characters in the series.  Since he is a wholly

man-made intelligence, I thought naming an Arimaa bot after him was

appropriate.

Licensing

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See LICENSE.rst for licensing details and restrictions that apply under the

Arimaa Public License.

.. _Arimaa: http://arimaa.com/

.. _more complex than chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game-tree_complexity

.. _online: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/