Hens and Chicks

TFW you turn playing games into a programming exercise... play Hens and Chicks, a new checkers-like game from @cheapassjames and @CrabFragment, against a javascript AI that runs in your web browser https://www.downtherathole.com/hensandchicks/

@cheapassjames @CrabFragment The AI uses a javascript implementation of Monte Carlo Tree Search that I wrote a few years ago and just put up on GitHub https://github.com/grwhitehead/jsmcts

Monte Carlo Tree Search is BLACK MAGIC. I've been playing around with it for 10 years now, before AlphaGO figured out how to supercharge it with deep learning, and even in its simplest pure form it's still amazing what it can do.

Play Tic-Tac-Toe, Connect Four, and Checkers against JSMCTS here https://grwhitehead.github.io/jsmcts/