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Functioning of duels for connect four

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The board

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Requests from BotsArena to your bot

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To talk, botsarena (the server hosting botsarena) execute a POST request on your bot's http(s) server with the json as body.

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Your bot responds with a JSON array.

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Message initating the game

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{"game-id":"1126","action":"init","game":"connectFour","players":2,"board":"","player-index":0}
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Explanation of each parameters:

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Your bot should return his name JSON format:

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-  {"name":"botName"}
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The arena currently does not check this response, the init step was included to ensure compatibility with Bolosseum . - If your bot returns a blank page at this step (action = init), it will work.

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Message asking you to play (only one turn)

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The Arena sends as example the following message:

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{"game-id":"9916","action":"play-turn","game":"connectFour","players":2,"board":[["","","","","","",""],["","","","","","",""],["","","","","","",""],["","","","","","",""],["","","","","","",""],["","","","","","",""]],"you":"X","player-index":0}
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The map

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It is represented by a sub-array, on the "board" parameter.
Exemple:

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-  [["","","","X","0","",""],
-   ["","","","X","","",""],
-   ["","","","","","",""],
-   ["","","","","","",""],
-   ["","","","","","",""],
-   ["","","","","","",""]]
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Visually, the connect 4 's plate is reversed. The line with index zero (top in the above excerpt) represents the bottom line.

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Your bot response

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JSON format, Only one digit that indicate column you want to play. 0 to 6.

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-{"play":"3"}
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For play in column three.
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Tools for developing and testing your bot

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To help you on how to manage communications between the bot and the arena, please take a look in the source PHP stupidIA .

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Script Botsarena

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This small html + javascript page will allow you to test and debug on your bot.
It will allow you to test your boot via its URL, against himself, a human or stupidIA.
Once ready, Express Sign your bot in the arena.

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By default, browsers do not allow javascript to make Cross domain queries. It is a browser security. So there are three options:

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This problem does not arise at the arena once your bot will be registered. Because in that case, it is the requests to the bot, not a browser.

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Bolosseum

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You will find command line tools to test and debug your bot on github project Bolosseum of @moul.

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Bringing your bot in this arena

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The registration form your bot is on the site's home page.