Nikolaos Papachristou is a PhD student at the Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, under the supervision of Assistant Professor Yiannis Refanidis.
As part of his MSc and PhD, he has developed Palamedes, a program that plays expert-level backgammon with variations such as Portes, Féyga, Plakoto, Narde and others. Palamedes won the gold medal at the last Backgammon Computer Games Olympiad.
His research interests are: Artificial Intelligence, AI gaming, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Networks, and Game Playing in general.
His two projects (Palamedes and AnyGammon) are available online for everyone.
Palamidis
Free research game
Play backgammon and other games against advanced artificial intelligence
Palamidis is the only backgammon program that supports a wide variety of variations. In addition to the traditional Portes, Plakoto and Féyga, you can also play narde, nackgammon, hypergammon and takhteh. The list of variations is constantly growing!
Palamides' "brain" uses artificial neural networks that were trained by playing millions of games with themselves using the reinforcement learning technique.
First place in the Computer Games Programming Olympiad organized by the ICGA organization for the year 2011. See photos from the event here
https://ai.uom.gr/nikpapa/software/Palamedes_0.47a/Palamedes_install.exe
AnyGammon
AnyGammon is a game that aims to expand the classic game of backgammon and other popular variations . Currently, AnyGammon users can play the variations Doors , Plakoto , Fevga . Try it now , using the links below . It's completely free !
