{"id":809,"date":"2026-08-04T06:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/?p=809"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:18:25","slug":"maybe-hedgehogs-ai-isnt-that-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/maybe-hedgehogs-ai-isnt-that-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Hedgehog’s AI isn’t that strong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After having been impressed by the playing strength of the local AIs that run in your browser and that seem to play at grandmaster level, here’s a blunder that even I would have avoided, performed by “Fox 0.32”, which I guess is their top AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have a four point board and your opponent has nothing and you have a good number of rolls to cover a blot on the 3 point you hit and let the blot stay there to make a five point board. The best move is _obviously_ 10\/9 6\/3* – bringing a second checker to cover the blot with all 4s and 6s and a couple of indirect combinations. Unclear why such an otherwise good AI played so conservative there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems I need to play a couple more games until I know the rating well enough for a review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don’t know what I’m talking about? The new AIs from the guys at open gammon.com called Hedgehog<\/a> that you can play online against, for free (or for an expensive subscription for more features).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After having been impressed by the playing strength of the local AIs that run in your browser and that seem to play at grandmaster level, here’s a blunder that even I would have avoided, performed by “Fox 0.32”, which I guess is their top AI. If you have a four point board and your opponent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t