Artifcial Intelligence
I am working on making a reasonably strong artificial intelligence, but it is
pretty weak at the moment. If you have the source package, You can run it via
cargo run --release --bin hnefatafl-ai. See --help for what options you can
pass it.
You’ll have to create an account for it first on whatever server you will be
running it on. Run the client and log onto the server. Then, Create an account
for your AI, prefixing the username with ai-.
It can also be run as a service for the Arch and Debian installs. Edit the file
/etc/hnefatafl-ai-attacker.conf or /etc/hnefatafl-ai-defender.conf and add
USERNAME=username
PASSWORD=password
Don’t prefix the USERNAME with ai- here.
Then run
sudo systemctl start hnefatafl-ai-attacker
or
sudo systemctl start hnefatafl-ai-defender
If you want to change the settings for the AI further, you can edit
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hnefatafl-ai-attacker.service or
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hnefatafl-ai-defender.service and change the value of
ExecStart.
By default this runs basic AI with a search depth of 4. The AI seems pretty weak if you go below 4. You can increase the depth, but the AI may run very slowly.
Be warned that by default this runs in parallel using all available CPUs. If
you only want to use one CPU, you can pass --sequential.
Hnefatafl Org by David Lawrence Campbell is licensed under CC BY 4.0
