First results
Oware players | Country | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Note | Date | |
Anonymous | Elo 1200-1400 | Germany | 11-37 | 8-40 | 17-31 | - | May 5, 2022 |
Trevor Simon | Grand Master | Antigua & Barbuda | Benchmark: 23-25 | Transcript | Dec. 24, 2021 |
Game results format: Challenger-48Stones
Independent computer scientists / hobbyists | Country | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Note | Date | |
Michiel Smits | Software + 36-seed database | The Netherlands | 23-25 | 23-25 | 22-26 | Games video | May 3, 2022 |
Joan Sala | AI engine: Aualé (Aalina 1.2.0) | Spain | Benchmark: 23-25 | Transcript | Apr. 17, 2021 |
Game results format: Challenger-48Stones
Do you think you can beat the 48Stones database or even reach a tie?
The challenge is open to the best Oware players, computer scientists, university researchers and technology companies. It consists of a series of games that are played on the platform www.playok.com.
👉 An invitation with all the conditions is published here!
Michiel Smits' software + 36-seed database

- Independent computer scientist, The Netherlands
- Games: played online www.playok.com, with the following settings:
Game time: 15 minutes Added time: 10 seconds (added to each of every move) Non-rated game (it doesn't affect the ELO score of the player) Undo enabled (to prevent from any typo while entering the moves from 48Stones)
- Execution: Michiel Smits played on behalf of his software and 36-seed database
- Execution: Xavier Blanvillain played on behalf of the 48Stones database
- Noticeable performance #1: 2 best game results in a row (23-25)
- Noticeable performance #2: almost perfect games (only 1 suboptimal move in the whole game)
- Noticeable performance #3: longest perfect opening of the best game results
48Stones (25)
vs.
Michiel Smits' (23)
May 3, 2022
Game
- 48Stones to start, 126 moves, 33 min
- Transcript: download pdf
Settings
- www.playok.com, 15'+10", unrated
Performance of Michiel Smits software + 36-seed database
Best moves: 73% Suboptimal moves: 1% Worst moves: 0% No move decision to make: 26%
Lost game at move #36
Comments
- Best game result
- Almost perfect game (only 1 suboptimal move in the whole game)
- Longest perfect opening
- Ends with a 8-seed loop
Michiel Smits' (23)
vs.
48Stones (25)
May 3, 2022
Game
- 48Stones to start, 175 moves, 45 min
- Transcript: download pdf
Settings
- www.playok.com, 15'+10", unrated
Performance of Michiel Smits software + 36-seed database
Best moves: 89% Suboptimal moves: 1% Worst moves: 0% No move decision to make: 10%
Lost game at move #21
Comments
- Best game result
- Almost perfect game (only 1 suboptimal move in the whole game)
- Game control: 90% of control from Michiel Smits' (positions where a decision for a best move is to be made)
- Ends with a 9-seed loop
Trevor Simon

- Grand Master, Antigua & Barbuda
- Games: played online www.playok.com, with the following settings:
Game time: 15 minutes Added time: 10 seconds (added to each of every move) Non-rated game (it doesn't affect the ELO score of the player) Undo enabled (to prevent from any typo while entering the moves from 48Stones)
- Execution: Xavier Blanvillain played on behalf of the 48Stones database, as it is not available to anybody for game ethical reasons
- Noticeable Trevor's performance #1: best game result (23-25)
- Noticeable Trevor's performance #2: almost perfect games (only 1 suboptimal move in the whole game)
- Noticeable Trevor's performance #3: 91% control of the game
Trevor Simon (23)
vs.
48Stones (25)
Dec 24, 2021
Game
- 48Stones to start, 93 moves, 20 min
- Transcript: download pdf
Settings
- www.playok.com, 15'+10", unrated
Trevor's play in this game
Best moves: 89% Suboptimal moves: 0% Worst moves: 2% No move decision to make: 9%
Lost game at move #16
Comments
- Best game result
- Almost perfect game (only 1 suboptimal move in the whole game)
- Game control: 91% of control from Trevor (positions where a decision for a best move is to be made)
- Superb 17-seed krou from Trevor
- Short game
Aualé (aka Aalina)

- Editor: Software info & download
- Version: 1.2.0
- Games: played offline, from console, with the following settings (advice from the author):
Computation time: 3.6 seconds
- Execution: 1 single CPU thread (not configurable)
- Noticeable performance #1: best game result (23-25)
- Noticeable performance #2: almost perfect games (only 1 suboptimal move in the whole game)
Aualé Aalina (23)
vs.
48Stones (25)
Apr 17, 2021
Game
- Aualé to start, 103 moves, 35 min
- Transcript: download pdf
Settings
- 3.6 seconds computation time
- CPU: 1.2 GHz Dual-Core Intel m3
Performance of "Aualé Aalina"
Best moves: 33% Suboptimal moves: 2% Worst moves: 0% No move decision to make: 65%
Lost game at move #19 Lost catch potential at move #63
Comments
- Best game result
- Almost perfect game (only 1 suboptimal move in the whole game)
- Series of 2-sided captures (pos. #10..#16)
- Series of 2-sided captures (pos. #34..#37)
- 1 krou
- Short game