Fluxplayer: A Successful General Game Player

Abstract

General Game Playing (GGP) is the art of designing pro-grams that are capable of playing previously unknown games of a wide variety by being told nothing but the rules of the game. This is in contrast to traditional computer game play-ers like Deep Blue, which are designed for a particular game and can’t adapt automatically to modifications of the rules, let alone play completely different games. General Game Play-ing is intended to foster the development of integrated cog-nitive information processing technology. In this article we present an approach to General Game Playing using a novel way of automatically constructing a position evaluation func-tion from a formal game description. Our system is being tested with a wide range of different games. Most notably, it is the winner of the AAAI GGP Competition 2006.