Regular Boardgames

Authors

  • Jakub Kowalski University of Wrocław
  • Maksymilian Mika University of Wrocław
  • Jakub Sutowicz University of Wrocław
  • Marek Szykuła University of Wrocław

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011699

Abstract

We propose a new General Game Playing (GGP) language called Regular Boardgames (RBG), which is based on the theory of regular languages. The objective of RBG is to join key properties as expressiveness, efficiency, and naturalness of the description in one GGP formalism, compensating certain drawbacks of the existing languages. This often makes RBG more suitable for various research and practical developments in GGP. While dedicated mostly for describing board games, RBG is universal for the class of all finite deterministic turn-based games with perfect information. We establish foundations of RBG, and analyze it theoretically and experimentally, focusing on the efficiency of reasoning. Regular Boardgames is the first GGP language that allows efficient encoding and playing games with complex rules and with large branching factor (e.g. amazons, arimaa, large chess variants, go, international checkers, paper soccer).

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Kowalski, J., Mika, M., Sutowicz, J., & Szykuła, M. (2019). Regular Boardgames. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 1699-1706. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011699

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AAAI Technical Track: Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment