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Man vs Bot

By Ben Weber | Published: November 5, 2010

A lot of interesting bots were submitted to the StarCraft AI Competition. However, even the best could not beat an expert human player. But what about amateur players? Kotaku claimed that most casual StarCraft players would be unable to defeat the bots. The goal of this post is to test that claim. To do so, I played against […]

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StarCraft AI Competition Results

By Ben Weber | Published: October 14, 2010

The AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI Competition has come to a close. The challenge given to competitors was to build the best performing bot for an immensely popular, commercial game. The competition consisted of four tournaments of varying complexity. This was the first year the competition was held and it turned out to be a success. Even though no […]

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EISBot Shows Potential Versus Human Players

By Ben Weber | Published: March 15, 2010

I developed a version of EISBot that plays a specific strategy, known as a 10-15 gate rush. The build was recently made famous by Nony. It is a Protoss build with the goal of harassing your opponent with ranged units as fast as possible and is most commonly used against Terran opponents. This strategy requires […]

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AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI Competition

By Ben Weber | Published: November 11, 2009

The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program. This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust commercial RTS environment. The competition will be held in the weeks leading up to the conference. The final matches will be held live at the conference with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top performing bots.

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