Game AI

I built a clean general search agent and it beat every opponent I had. Then I pointed it at a 400-line hand-written bot and lost three games in four. The opponents I had been measuring against were the problem.

The Pokemon Company put the Trading Card Game up as an AI problem, and I entered. Here is what the competition actually is, why this game is harder for a machine than chess, and what you are going to see over the next few weeks.