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36 lines
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# Minimax
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## Rules
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This game is played in two rounds, starting with an empty eleven-space board. Red always goes first.
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On Red's board (i.e, duing the first round), Red's job is to maximize the value of the expression; Blue's job is to minimize it.
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Players take turns placing the fourteen symbols `0123456789+-×÷` on the board, with the maximizing player taking the first move.
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A board's syntax must always be valid. Namely, the following rules are enforced:
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- Each symbol may only be used once
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- The binary operators `+-×÷` may not be next to one another, and may not be at the end slots.
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- The unary operator `-` (negative) must have a number as an argument. Therefore, it cannot be left of an operator (like `-×`), and it may not be in the rightmost slot.
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- `0` may not follow `÷`. This prevents most cases of zero-division, but isn't perfect. `÷-0` will break the game, and `÷0_+` is forbidden despite being valid syntax once the empty slot is filled (for example, with `÷03+`). This is done to simplyify game logic, and might be improved later.
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## Building & Running
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As always, run this project with `cargo run`. The app takes one argument by default: the name of the blue player. This can be any of the following:
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- `human`: Play against a human
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- `random`: Play against a random agent (very easy)
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- `chase`: Play against a simple extremum-chasing agent (easy)
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- `diffuse`: Play against a slightly more intellegent extremum chaser (medium)
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- `brutus`: Play against a simple brute-force agent (hard)
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For example, `cargo run -- random` will start a game against a random player. Use your arrow keys and space bar to play.
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Additional options are available, see `cargo run -- --help`.
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Win rates against random are as follows:
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- `human`: ~100%
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- `random`: ~50%
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- `chase`: ~70%
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- `diffuse`: ~76%
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- `brutus`: ~90% |