The Trickster Engine: Artificial Intelligence for Spades

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The Trickster Engine Artificial Intelligence
for Spades

• Joshua Graffman
• Tim Mersch
• Faculty Sponsor Dr. Chan

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Finalizing AI/Preparing for Evaluation

• Artificial intelligence module tested under many
  scenarios ensuring proper behavior
• Work with integration code to make some of the
  evaluation quicker
• Ensure that saving functionality worked as
  expected so that results can be substantiated
  through game files

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Competitive Evaluation

• Although not entirely complete, preliminary
  results look favorable
• Using a mixture of manual and automatic input as
  available
• Using partners provided by the clients
• Results of rounds and games stored (approximately
  200 rounds, 18 games)
• Against Microsoft Spades 7 wins, 7 losses
• Against MVP Spades 4 wins, 0 losses
• Final results to be tabulated for the final
  presentation

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Poster
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Task Matrix for Milestone 6
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DEMO
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Thank You! Any questions?