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		Arimaa, is a two-player zero-sum and perfect information abstract strategy board game, that can be played using the same equipment as chess, invented by Omar and Aamir Syed. In 2002, Omar Syed published the rules to Arimaa ^[1] and announced a $10,000 prize, available annually until 2020, for the first computer program (running on standard hardware) able to defeat each of three top-ranked human players in a three game series ^[2]. Due to its huge Branching Factor of about 17,281 ^[3], Arimaa is hard to play for computers. In 2015, David J. Wu won the Arimaa Challenge and the then $12,000 USD prize with his program Sharp ^[4], major topic in the ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1.
The players begin by setting up their pieces however they choose on their home rows ^[5]

Arimaa Pieces

Name	Number	Represented by Chess Piece
Elephant	1	King
Camel	1	Queen
Horse	2	Rook
Dog	2	Bishop
Cat	2	Knight
Rabbit	8	Pawn

Publications

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Haizhi Zhong (2005). Building a Strong Arimaa-playing Program. word doc
Omar Syed, Jeroen Donkers (2005). The 2nd Arimaa Challenge Match. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2
Christ-Jan Cox (2006). Analysis and Implementation of the Game Arimaa. Master's thesis pdf, Appendix B pdf
Nicolas A. Barriga (2006). Arimaa, the Game of Real Intelligence? pdf
Omar Syed (2009). The 6th Annual Arimaa Computer World Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1
Omar Syed (2009). The 6th Annual Arimaa Challenge Match. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No 2
Gerhard Trippen (2009). Plans, Patterns and Move Categories Guiding a Highly Selective Search. Advances in Computer Games 12, pdf
Sam Miller (2009). Researching and Implementing a Computer Agent to Play Arimaa. Thesis pdf
José Roberto Mercado Vega, Zvi Retchkiman Königsberg (2009). Modeling the Game of Arimaa with Linguistic Geometry. CIG'09, pdf » Linguistic Geometry ^[7]
José Roberto Mercado Vega, Zvi Retchkiman Königsberg (2009). A Linguistic Geometry Model for an Arimaa Bot. Neural, Parallel, and Scientific Computations, Vol. 17, pdf
Tomas Kozelek (2009). Methods of MCTS and the game Arimaa. Master's thesis, pdf
Fritz Juhnke (2009). Beginning Arimaa: Chess Reborn Beyond Computer Comprehension. Flying Camel Publications. ISBN 0-9824-2740-9
Sam Miller (2009). Researching and Implementing a Computer Agent to Play Arimaa. Thesis, University of Southampton, pdf

Stefano Carlini (2010). Arimaa, a New Challenge for Artificial Intelligence. M.Sc. thesis, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, pdf
David J. Wu (2011). Move Ranking and Evaluation in the Game of Arimaa. B.Sc. thesis, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pdf
Tomáš Jakl (2011). Arimaa Challenge – Comparison Study of MCTS versus Alpha-Beta Methods. B.Sc. thesis, Charles University in Prague, pdf
Kanjanapa Thitipong, Komiya Kanako, Yoshiyuki Kotani (2012). Design and Implementation of Bonanza Method for the Evaluation in the Game of Arimaa. IPSJ SIG Technical Report, Vol. 2012-GI-27, No. 4, pdf
Tomáš Hřebejk (2013). Arimaa challenge - Static Evaluation Function. Master Thesis, Charles University in Prague, pdf » Automated Tuning ^[8]

Omar Syed (2015). The Arimaa Challenge: From Inception to Completion. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1
David Fotland (2015). Computer Arimaa: The Beginning. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1
David J. Wu (2015). Designing a Winning Arimaa Program. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, pdf ^[9]
Andy Lewis (2015). Game Over, Arimaa? ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 ^[10]

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