This research section is meant equally to Oware players and computer scientists. Articles and results will be published progressively.

If you want to see specific topics that are not listed below, and/or want to be informed of new publications,

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Game insights

Game statistics

  • Distribution of legal positions and game space-state
  • Report: impact of 11- and 13-seed loops on the game's resolution
  • Discovery: breadth-first search (BFS) of 48-seed state-space
  • Discovery: retrograde analysis observable patterns

Resolution methodology

  • Depth-first search (DFS)
  • Backward propagation
  • Brute-force: asynchronous multi-thread propagation

Mathematics of Oware

  • Pascal triangle
  • Bit-map operations

Technical implementation

  • Machine: 24 Core / 48 Threads, 768 GB ECC memory, 2 TB SSD
  • Databases: topology, model, formats, R/W performances
  • Memory: indexing, paging & caching

Presentations & Papers

Media