WALTZ: a Tzaar-playing engine

WALTZ is a computer program to play TZAAR, a 2-player abstract strategy game designed by Kris Burm and the final game in the GIPF project.

UPDATE Dec 2024: WALTZ is used in a new Tzaar app for Android, developed by Roman Perera.

• Thesis of Pavel Veselý about Waltz
• Paper submitted to Workshop on Computer Games, IJCAI 2013

Project files

• GitHub repository with the code for the AI
• WALTZ source code (probably outdated)
• WALTZ manual
• Endgame testing positions
• Midgame testing positions
• Positions from Boiteajeux.net (from WALTZ's games on Boiteajeux.net; used to obtain statistics of branching factors)
• Results of tests against other computer programs

Related webpages

• Official Tzaar webpage – with rules and other information
• Boardgaming portal Boiteajeux.net – you can find there WALTZ's results against human opponents using the search in the left menu; UPDATE: unfortunately, the portal does not work anymore...
• Tzaar on BoardGameGeek.com
• Daedalus Game Manager – source code of a program for playing Tzaar