The rectangular seeds of Domineering

Abstract

Recently, a methodology has been proposed for boosting the computational intelligence of randomized game-playing programs. We modify this methodology by working on rectangular, rather than square, matrices; and we apply it to the Domineering game. At CIG 2015, We propose a demo in the case of Go. Hence, players on site can contribute to the scientific validation by playing (in a double blind manner) against both the original algorithm and its boosted version.