What kinds of games does the Zillions AI play well and what kinds does it play poorly?
Zillions’ internal AI is basically a classical, brute-force, tree-search engine. For simple games like TicTacToe, Zillions can figure out every possibility in a fraction of a second and play perfectly! Zillions plays well in games like Checkers where it can find good tactical possibilities by looking ahead. Zillions doesn’t play as well in games with huge “branching factors” (large number of moves available to play) such as “Shogi” with pieces in hand. This is a well-known syndrome of game search engines that AI researchers are currently grappling with.
