Connect Five AI

Connect Five is a board game in which you need to place five of your own pieces in a row while preventing your opponent from getting five in a row to win. For this project I created the AI for player 1 and player 2.

Features

• AI

My Role in This Project

This project was an individual project and the basic engine for the game was provided by our professor. The specific parts of the project that I worked on are as follows:

• Game Tree
• Move Generator
• Evaluation Function
• Transposition Tables

Programming Challenges

The biggest challenge for this project was getting the tree to go deep enough while still maintaining a move time of under 10 seconds so that I could win the tournament.

Code Sample

The following link contains a zip file with some of the important code used in this project: Connect Five Code

Game Download

Download the game files here: GameDownload

Depending on your version of the DirectX runtimes you may need to install the newest version to run the game. You can install the newest version by going to the following website DirectX runtime download