This project was completed as part of the subject AI (COMP30024). 128 teams
of 2 submitted an agent to the tournament, and this was the winner!
Our approach was based on Negamax, with several optimisations to reduce the search space and prune the Negamax-tree, including transposition tables using Zobrist hash keys. Our report describing our full process can be found here.
The game itself is identical to Hex, except that opponent pieces may be captured.