The Google AI Challenge is an Artificial Intelligence programming contest. You can get more information by visiting www.ai-contest.com and http://planetwars.aichallenge.org/ Please check on the planet wars tutorial pdf to know about how to execute the code. Please check on the report by Houdini III (another pdf) to understand about the strategy implemented in detail. Briefly we have implemented Alpha Beta Pruning along with some smaart Heuristics and effective attacking strategies.