Strategy Generation and Evaluation for Meta-game Playing

Book excerpt: Abstract: "Meta-Game Playing (Metagame) is a new paradigm for research in game-playing in which we design programs to take in the rules of unknown games and play those games without human assistance. Strong performance in this new paradigm is evidence that the program, instead of its human designer has performed the analysis of each specific game. SCL- Metagame is a concrete Metagame research problem based around the class of symmetric chess-like games. The class includes the games of chess, draughts, noughts and crosses, Chinese-chess, and Shogi. An implemented game generator produces new games in this class, some of which are objects of interest in their own right.