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If you're looking for colorful explosions, try our Battleship game, which extends the classic version with 4 weapons. Strategies and tactics to win at Connect 4 online At the start of the game half-moves till the player wins. In total, the underlying exhaustive data base not only confirms that Connect Four is If the player can play first, it is better to place it in the middle column. Since the board has seven columns, placing the discs in the middle allows connection to go up vertically, diagonally, and horizontally. In total, there are five possible ways. · Make traps for the opponent moves needed to force a win from this board. An even number shows in how many further half-moves the game can be won

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defense play of the opponent). A 'D' indicates a position where the current player can force a draw. So an even On the FPGA side, the Connect Four AI implementation utilizes a top level finite state machine to read the current game state from SRAM, compute the next AI move, and write the new move to SRAM. The top level FSM is depicted in the diagram below. Before diving into advanced strategies, it’s crucial to have a solid grasp of Connect 4’s core mechanics. The game is played on a 7×6 grid, with two players taking turns to drop their pieces into one of the seven columns. The objective is to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four consecutive pieces before your opponent does. This simple set of rules leads to a wide range of strategic possibilities and requires players to think multiple moves ahead to gain an advantage. Embracing the Online Connect 4 Community The AI of this game is based on an exhaustive evaluation of all possible game positions of up to 23 coins,

Players that enjoy playing Connect 4 might also like Gomoku, increasing the challenge with a giant board and 5 pieces to connect. If you seek a more straightforward game, you can go for Tic-Tac-Toe, a 3x3 row game.

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There were three main fronts upon which we evaluated our design: (1) speed of execution, (2) gameplay awareness, and (3) correctness. One last feature that we added to our AI was meant to let the AI perform slightly advanced gameplay. This feature actually creates an exception to the above feature, where we do not allow the AI to self-destruct, enabling self-destruction if the move effectively sets up a trap. We can illustrate this example in the image below. Regarding things we might do differently for our AI design, there are additional features we may be able to add to it. For example, we currently drive the VGA display using the HPS. By integrating VGA display into the FPGA, we could be able to update the display faster (this may even allow us to add fancy animations, such as showing discs dropping and making a sound when they hit the bottom, which was not done due to the delay from the HPS in constantly writing and overwriting a disc). One final thing to note about our AI is that we did not wish for it to win 100% of the time. While we also would have been resource limited on the FPGA if we were to traverse the entire state space to determine moves that are guaranteed to win, we also realized that this would not have been a fun, productive playing experience for the user. As such, our AI was designed such that it made moves like an above average AI player would (by using tactics such as looking at future states and making guesses as to the opposing player’s strategy for placing their moves), but it is not unbeatable. In the image below, we see that it is indeed possible to play the AI to a draw. This allows for the human player to train their Connect Four capabilities to a level high enough to consistently win against the AI. If possible, place your disks in the openings to allow multiple connections. For example, if you have panels separated by a row or column, look for an intermediate hole that will allow you to connect the panels diagonally, horizontally or vertically.When the game begins, the first player gets to choose one column among seven to place the colored disc. There are 7 columns in total, so there are 7 branches of a decision tree each time. After the first player makes a move, the second player could choose one column out of seven, continuing from the first player’s choice of the decision tree. The high level structure of our design is shown in the diagram above. When first running the HPS program, the HPS initializes an empty game board, draws it on the screen, and prompts the player to either make a move or let the AI go first. stored in a large data base. Boards with 24 or more coins are directly evaluated on the server. For each possible board its status (current player win, opponent player win, draw) is known, as well as as the minimum number of half a first player win. It shows for any possible situation on the board the full information for all possible moves,