[comp.ai] AI gaming : mancala

jtkung@mit-caf.UUCP (Joseph Kung) (11/16/87)

Anybody out there have any interesting gaming strategies for the
African game, mancala? I need some for an AI game that a friend of
mine is working on. Thanks.

- Joe

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srt@CS.UCLA.EDU (11/17/87)

In article <542@mit-caf.UUCP> jtkung@mit-caf.UUCP (Joseph Kung) writes:
>Anybody out there have any interesting gaming strategies for the
>African game, mancala? I need some for an AI game that a friend of
>mine is working on. Thanks.

If 'mancala' is any variant of Kalah, you might want to look at *The
Art of Prolog* by Sterling and Shapiro, which includes a Prolog implementation
of Kalah.
 
    Scott R. Turner
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dsr@uvacs.UUCP (11/18/87)

>In article <542@mit-caf.UUCP> jtkung@mit-caf.UUCP (Joseph Kung) writes:
>>Anybody out there have any interesting gaming strategies for the
>>African game, mancala? I need some for an AI game that a friend of
>>mine is working on. Thanks.

There is a book "Mancala Games" by Laurence Russ, Reference Publ. Inc., 1984.

I haver not read it but it was reviewed in Math. Intelligencer 9(1987)68.