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Installation

Install Golang.

Place the contents of this package in a folder that is neither in the GOROOT or GOPATH.

Install the golang.org/x/net/context package.

Programs

There are several commands included under the cmd directory. All commands accept -help to list flags, but are otherwise minimally documented at present. Note that many flags are left over from Taktician and currently have no effect.

cmd/playtak

A simple interface to play tak on the command line. To play black run:

go run main.go

To play white run:

go run main.go -white=human -black=minimax:5

cmd/analyzetak

A program that reads PTN files and performs AI analysis on the terminal position.

analyzetak FILE.ptn

cmd/taklogger

A bot that connects to playtak.com and logs all games it sees in PTN format.

cmd/taktician

The AI driver for playtak.com.

Compile with:

go build

Can be used via:

taktician -user USERNAME -pass PASSWORD

Variables that control the behaviour can generally be found in the cmd/taktician/main.go and cmd/taktician/taktician.go files.

Only board sizes 5 and 6 are available. Depth is the primary method of adjusting strength, for reasonable performance generally don't go above depth 3 at size 6, and depth 4 at size 5. t.ai.Diversify sets the random component of evaluation, going below 100 runs a risk of making the AI too predictable, higher values makes the AI more random, and weaker.