June 19, 2010

I've been improving Arasan's pruning and extension logic. It now seems to be playing better and is doing well on test suites (although as I write this I am watching it lose a game to version 11.7). I have also done some work on time management: now, in addition to taking more time when its score is dropping, Arasan will move more quickly if there appears to be only one good move (typically a forced recapture). It used to do this but somewhere around version 10.0 I had removed it.

Arasan will play in the online WCRCC event in July, after which I will probably make the latest version with these fixes/improvements available.