Everything about General Game Playing totally explained
General Game Playing refers to the design of
Artificial Intelligence programs to be able to play more than one game successfully. For many games like chess, computers are programmed to play these games using a specially designed algorithm, which can't be transferred to another context. For example, a chess playing computer program can't play checkers. A General Game Playing system, if well designed, would be able to help in other areas, such as in providing intelligence for search and rescue missions.
Stanford project
General Game Playing is a project of the Stanford Logic Group of
Stanford University,
California, which aims to create a platform for General Game Playing. The games are defined by sets of rules represented in the
Game Description Language. In order to play the games, players interact with a game hosting server that monitors moves for legality and keeps players informed of state changes.
Since 2005, there have been annual General Game Playing competitions at the
AAAI Conference. The winner of the competition is awarded with $10,000 (
USD). So far, the following programs were victorious:
Other approaches
There are also other General Game Playing systems, which use their own languages for defining the game rules. In 1992, Barney Pell developed the system Metagame. This system was able to play a number of chess-like games, given game rules definition in a special language. In 1998, the commercial system
Zillions of Games was developed by Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler. The system used a LISP-like language to define the game rules. Zillions of Games derived the
evaluation function automatically from the game rules based on piece mobility, board structure and game goals. It also employed usual algorithms as found in
computer chess systems:
alpha-beta pruning with move ordering,
transposition tables, etc. The package was extended in 2007 by the addition of the Axiom plug-in, an alternate metagame engine which incorporates a complete Forth based programming language.
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