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General / Re: Carcassonne's World Records

« on: January 03, 2014, 08:28:21 AM »

I have just read the sad news about a guy dying out of exhaustion in front of his computer playing video games for 49 hours. He probably did not eat or drink at all.

I hope that we are not going to lose Carcassonne players when the 49 hours threshold is reached. With a 42 hours record, we are getting pretty close

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General / Re: Combinatorics and Graph Theory applied to Carcassonne

« on: January 03, 2014, 08:23:22 AM »

Thanks for these articles.

Carcassonne is a very interesting problem from an Artificial Intelligence perpective. Sure enough, tactics is a piece of cake for the computer. Finding the best short-term move is very simple. But finding the right strategical move is another thing, especially if you want the computer to play well with more than 2 players.

In case this is of interest to anyone reading this, I heard that they are making good progress in 2-player limit Poker and are slowly gaining ground in related forms (2-player no-limit and multiplayer limit). Multi-player no limit will come some day...

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General / Re: Carcassonne App on Facebook

« on: January 03, 2014, 08:09:21 AM »

I would steer away from the Facebook app.

It was clearly done without permission of the right owners.

Stick to the IOS or Android app!