Competitive Results
8-2 Matchups Tournament, December 1986. Tied for first place. Opponents were very strong, including several past or future champions.
5-0 Cape Cod Fun Weekend. Opponents ranged from strong to just below championship caliber.
7-3 Matchups Team Tournament. Maven played second board on a computer team. Playing on second board lowered the caliber of opposition a bit.
0-2 match in 1996 against Adam Logan, National Champion. Match held at AAAI conference. Maven's first games that used a simulation strategy. The ratio of computer power was not quite right, though, and the implementation was buggy.
9-5 match in 1997 against Adam Logan, National Champion. Rematch at AAAI conference. This was the first match featuring a reasonably well implemented simulation engine against a human champion.
6-3 match in 1998 against Joel Sherman (World Champion) and Matt Graham (World Runner-up), sponsored by the New York Times. Maven was not using a simulation strategy in this match, but it got good tiles.
30-6 Toronto tournament, 2006. The first 14 games were against players who could easily win championships, including several National or World Championship winners. Maven went 9-5 in those games. The remaining 22 games were against a range of experts, with Maven going 21-1.
Overall: 65-21, including 32-17 against championship caliber opposition.
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