
With that out of the way, let’s get to the games! For each one I’ve included some details about the options available to players in Ai Ai. The hope is that players may try all these different variations in Ai Ai, and hopefully use those experiences to choose the best ruleset to play as a community. Essentially I decided to include a rule proposal or piece movement when that interpretation had been played before, and/or had some historical plausibility, and tried to remain neutral on the long-standing rules disputes in some of these games. All the games have options to choose different rules interpretations, piece movements, etc.

If the thinking times are too low, you may find the AI repeats moves a lot as it struggles to find useful continuations. If you have an old computer with a slow CPU you may need to amp those times up significantly. When you do play against the AI, be sure to give it plenty of thinking time at an absolute minimum, give it 30 seconds per move for the 16×16/17×17 games, 1 minute for 19×19, and 2 minutes or more for 25×25.
RIDICULOUS 6 TUMBLEWEED GIF DOWNLOAD
If you thought the giant 15×15 Dai Shogi was over-the-top, you’ll be amazed what we’ve brought to you this time!īefore I show off what we’ve done, a few points to keep in mind when you download the new Ai Ai version with all these amazing games: Since my previous post on our addition of multiple variants of Shogi to the Ai Ai general game-playing software, Stephen and I have been hard at work implementing even more ancient Shogi games. When you want to see/download the full-size GIFs, click the image and then click the (i) button, and finally click the link to view the full-size GIF in another tab.

USEFUL TIP: WordPress handles GIFs in a weird way. These games were generated with much longer thinking times (120 seconds) so the games are also higher quality. I’m slowly replacing the sample games for Maka Dai Dai Shogi, Tai Shogi and Mini Tai Shogi with new, smaller GIFs.
RIDICULOUS 6 TUMBLEWEED GIF UPDATE
UPDATE - Some of the sample game GIFs on this page broke, possibly from WordPress again changing the size limit for displayed images. UPDATE - More sample games updated - Dai Dai Shogi, Tai Shogi, Mini Tai Shogi.
