🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Mar 19, 2023 09:37 PM UTC:
For the next game, I gave the Ludii player 30 seconds of thinking time. It still played very poorly, making lots of obviously bad moves. The Interactive Diagram made sensible moves for most of the game, but during the endgame, it failed to mobilize its overwhelmingly superior forces for checkmate. It could have easily gotten checkmate by moving out a Rook to help the Queen, but instead it moved out its King. When it was getting close to further hemming in the King and eventually getting checkmate, it moved its Queen to a rank further from the King, giving it more space to move. Eventually, the game ended in a draw through three-times repetition, which I estimated by observing the same set of four moves repeat three times. Here are the moves:
For the next game, I gave the Ludii player 30 seconds of thinking time. It still played very poorly, making lots of obviously bad moves. The Interactive Diagram made sensible moves for most of the game, but during the endgame, it failed to mobilize its overwhelmingly superior forces for checkmate. It could have easily gotten checkmate by moving out a Rook to help the Queen, but instead it moved out its King. When it was getting close to further hemming in the King and eventually getting checkmate, it moved its Queen to a rank further from the King, giving it more space to move. Eventually, the game ended in a draw through three-times repetition, which I estimated by observing the same set of four moves repeat three times. Here are the moves: