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# These competitions are optional for CS540 students, unless you want to use it for the participation grades.


# CP3 Competition Instruction



📗 In this competition, you will implement the minimax algorithm with some static board evaluation function to play the Connect Four game: Wikipedia. The first player has a winning strategy, but it is difficult to compute the best responses in real time. Instead, you will use some heuristic with a depth limit to solve for approximate best responses.

📗 Submit a policy neural network to play against other students.

📗 You will play twice with each of the other players in your team and your score will be the number of wins plus \(0.5\) times the number of ties.

📗 You can play against a simple minimax (with depth limit) player with a simple SBE heuristic.


You are player , and start with the following state:

# Competition

VS


Wins:
Leader board:
Submissions:

Red: vs Blue: Step:

# Submission

📗 Please use the following form to generate a text file:
➩ Wisc Net ID (the ??? in ???@wisc.edu):
➩ Group (either 1 or 2):
➩ Player Icon (text from this list):
➩ Player ID (a number between 0 and 9999):
➩ Network First:
➩ Network Second:

➩ Output file:

📗 Submit this file to: Form.






Last Updated: March 25, 2026 at 1:59 PM