Dkf - A Program that plays DisKonnect and Konane

Dkf is an implementation of the games DisKonnect and Konane, which uses the Fuego framework. It includes a computer player based on Monte Carlo Tree Search. As far as we (Martin Müller and Ryan Hayward) know, it is the strongest existing player for these games.

At the 2014 TRUe Games Workshop at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada, dkf won all its games against humans.

README for dkf program, including instructions for download and build.

The Game of Konane

The Wikipedia article on Konane explains the rules and history of the game, and has some links to the mathematical analyses.

The Game of DisKonnect

DisKonnect is a point-scoring variant of Konane. The game was introduced to the participants of the TRUe Games Workshop at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada. in 2014 by Carlos Santos. The rules are summarized in the paper given below.

João Neto has a scoring games calculator which includes DisKonnect.
When Waiting Moves You in Scoring Combinatorial Games by Larsson, Nowakowski and Santos discusses DisKonnect from page 5.

Created: Nov 29, 2011 Last modified: Aug 5, 2015

Martin Müller