Jeroen Donkers Game Research Page
Opponent Models
My interest in games is how computers can play games better by using opponent models. For details, see my page on searching with opponent models.Java Games Library
My Java toolkit for testing game-tree search algorithms is online, free for download.Mancala games
In doing this research I stumbled upon the fascinating group of games called mancala games. This is a large group of count-and-capture games, played all over the world buy only little known in the western 'civalized' world. (see the Mancala wiki or awale links). The games that I looked at in particular are:
A mancala board I own, probably from India. Maybe used for a game called Pallankuzhi.