What is it?

An Oware Abapa artificial intelligence game engine.

Aalina (a.k.a. Aualé) is a strong Oware playing artificial intelligence engine. 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)
Automatically built openings book
Two-tier transposition table with aging
Simple time management
UCT based openings book trainer
Complete UCI protocol support
Optional UCT/MCTS search

Command line tools:

UCI protocol service
UCI protocol shell interface
Automatic openings book trainer
Command line playing interface
Engine benchmark, perft and divide
Tournament runner
Basic tests

Usage and Documentation

This engine was implemented with the Samurai Framework. See the repository https://github.com/joansalasoler/engines for usage instructions.

The Latest Version

Information on the latest version of this software and its current development can be found on https://github.com/joansalasoler/oware

Installation

Please see the INSTALL file.

Licensing

Please see the COPYING file.