Hexagonal Arimaa
This is a rules file for Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules to. With Zillions-of-Games installed, this rules file will let you play this game against your computer.
The original Arimaa game, from which this Hexagonal version is derived, is a two-player strategy board game that was designed to be playable with a standard chess set, easy to learn, difficult for computers, and fun to play for humans. It was invented in 2003 by Omar Syed. Syed was inspired by Garry Kasparov's defeat at the hands of the chess computer Deep Blue to design a new game which could be played with a standard chess set, would be difficult for computers to play well, but would have rules simple enough for his then four-year-old son Aamir to understand. ("Arimaa" is "Aamir" spelled backwards plus an initial "A".)
This Hexagonal version of Arimaa is based on McCooey's Hexagonal Chess. Dave McCooey and I were discussing the fact that the computers finally beat the Humans at Arimaa in 2015 when Dave suggested that Hexagonal Arimaa was 'The next logical step.'
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By Tim O'Lena.
Last revised by Tim O'Lena.
Web page created: 2020-07-11. Web page last updated: 2020-07-11