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Diplomacy is a 7-player game that requires coordination between players in order to achieve victory. Its huge search space makes existing search algorithms useless. In this paper we present Darkblade, a player designed as a Multi-Agent System that uses potential fields to calculate moves and evaluate board positions. We tested our player against other recent players. Although there are some limitations, the results are promising.
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Ribeiro, J., Mariano, P., Seabra Lopes, L. (2009). DarkBlade: A Program That Plays Diplomacy. In: Lopes, L.S., Lau, N., Mariano, P., Rocha, L.M. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04686-5_40
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