Links

Credits

A lot of information here would not have been possible without these lovely resources:

• Chessprogramming for their in-depth information about complex game solving
• Various reference implementations:
  • Stockfish for lists of heuristics used
  • AlphaZero as a reference for a reinforcement learning implementation.
• Pascal Pons's guide for a simple overview of topics covered in chessprogramming
• Wikipedia for external references in regards to game optimization.

Other engines

There are a few notable programs that also aim to solve specific portions of combinatorial games.

• GamesCrafters, which solves lightweight combinatorial games with lovely graphic visualization.
• Glop, GNU-licensed software that solves specific combinatorial games by rigirous theory analysis.
• cgt-rs, a combinatorial game theory calculator, serving as a CAS for combinatorial game theory notation.

For reference, the purpose of this software is to solve generic but heavy combinatorial games as fast as possible.