What is it?

An Oware Abapa artificial intelligence game engine.

Aalina is the strongest mancala playing program out there. It communicates with a Graphical User Interface through an adapted version of the Universal Chess Interface protocol. This mancala engine is thus usually invoked by a GUI, such as Aualé, which is the official interface for this engine, but can also be played on the terminal.

Its features include:

Command line interface
Plays mancala following the popular Abapa ruleset
Completely configurable through the UCI protocol
Includes a set of engine optimization tools

Implementation details:

Negamax search
Iterative deepening
Principal variation search
Optimized evaluation heuristics
Minimal perfect hashing of positions
Endgame tablebases (12 seeds or less)
Openings book (about 200.000 positions)
Two-tier transposition table with aging

The Latest Version

Information on the latest version of this software and its current development can be found on http://www.joansala.com/auale/

Installation

Please see the INSTALL file.

Licensing

Please see the COPYING file.