unmake_move for Awele

[Shamba-gpu]

I suspect it's impossible to write unmake_move function for Awele, isn't it?

[JohnAD]

It should be possible. The game class might need the history (list) of seeds collected for each ply so that you have the needed context of previous moves. (aka self.seeds_taken)

I'm not entirely sure if that would speed up the game in Oware (Awele). You would want to run performance tests.

[JohnAD]

I wrote a similar game for Kalah version of Mancala, and I found deriving short-view "tactical" scoring for judging a turn helped make the AI much smarter at the same depth. For Oware, there is a book by David Chamberlin called "How to Play Warri" that dives into the details of short term play.

(disclaimer: I'm coincidentally involved with David's book as the publisher.)

[Shamba-gpu]

I wrote a similar game for Kalah version of Mancala, and I found deriving short-view "tactical" scoring for judging a turn helped make the AI much smarter at the same depth. For Oware, there is a book by David Chamberlin called "How to Play Warri" that dives into the details of short term play.

(disclaimer: I'm coincidentally involved with David's book as the publisher.)

John, I saw your project of Mancala, and it looks great. I highly recommend you to look at togyz kumalak/toguz korgool game as well.