[LearnYouALisp]

The first lines seemed familiar:

http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html

[tvorryn]

Haha. It didn't say that before, because he hadn't officially won yet. It's actually been propagated from Tron: http://a1k0n.net/2010/03/04/google-ai-postmortem.html

[a1k0n]

I definitely had no intention of starting a tradition there. Haha.

[tvorryn]

You didn't do too badly this time yourself. 11th place. Looking at what he did, do you see what you could do to improve your bot further?

[a1k0n]

Sure, but as he concludes at the end, I didn't want to spend too much time on it. My bot was fairly unique in that it used Monte Carlo methods rather than deterministic minimax, and it got the job done without too much effort. I wrote a forum post describing the basic approach here: http://forums.aichallenge.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2044

[LearnYouALisp]

It seemed like a tradition, but strangely Google only showed his page at the top.