Battleship
This reminds me of a project idea I had...I was thinking of setting up a small server that can emulate some up multiplayer games, such as battleship, connect 4, even perhaps monopoly.Then people submit code, or connect their machines to it, and it becomes "battle of the algorithms".You'd have to register an algorithm name / version, and compete a few times against other algorithms, to be placed on the leaderboard for that game*.Each game could just be stored as plaintext, so it would be easy to replay each move and visualise it on the website.I haven't yet begun creating it, but it'd be great to see how your algorithm would work against another; You'd also have to consider how to place your ships as well. (probably sticking them in the corners could be easily dealt with, right?Looking at this algorithm it seems like it's pretty optimal, I don't think there's much else that could be done with Battleships. Playing with other human players would be a different outcome..* I would only really expect algorithms work per game, not across games.