THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL EDITION OF MAIC: MAIC 2018

• SEEGA, THE MAIC 2018 GAME

The game selected for the second edition of MAIC is the board game Seega. The origins of the Seega date back to ancient times when Egypt was under Roman rule. It is still practiced in present-day in Egypt, in Ethiopia and especially in Somalia. In Somalia, when Bedouins guiding camels through the desert find themselves facing a sandstorm, they pitch their tents and spend time developing new tactics. Seega is a 5 × 5 board game in which each player has 12 pieces. Some variants are played on larger boards of 7 × 7 or 9 × 9.
MAIC 2018 used the classical 5 × 5 board. The goal of the gameis to capture all the pieces of your opponent (or as much as possible when the game arrives at a blocking configuration). Seega is deterministic, turn-taking, two-players, zero-sum, with complete and perfect information about the board. Seega has two different phases, one as strategic as the other: the deployment phase and the movements phase.

THE SEEGA MOBILE APPLICATION

One of the aims of MAIC is to promote some society games. Then for each competition, a mobile application is developed and is publicly available. The Seega mobile application is available on the Google Play Store Seega MAIC and offers the following modes:

• play Seega human VS human on the same smart-phone/tablet;


• play Seega human VS human online;


• play human VS AI, the AI are the best 3 AI of the competition.

MAIC2018-SEEGA SOURCE CODE

One of the aims of MAIC is to promote some society games. Then for each The source code for MIFY Articificial Intelligence Contest 2018 with the finalists's AI code is available here : MAIC2018-Seega code