note tinman <p>I did an AI course last year of university, and there were several sections on game programming in almost all the texts I read.. IIRC, one of the earlier phases of AI involved building machines that could play certain games (checkers, chess, othello) well... <p>FWIW, here are some URLs and books from the reading list.. some of them are rather thick, but I do know you can skip to the game programming section.. only problem is that you'd need to convert the principles to the language of your choice :o) <ul> <li>[http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dannyd/FAI/] <li>P Jackson; Introduction to Expert Systems; AddisonWesley, 1989 <li>G F Luger and W A Stubblefield; Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving; (3rd edition) Addison Wesley 1998 <li>Rich E & KNIGHT K, Artificial Intelligence 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill 1991 <li>Russell S & Norvig P, Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1995 </ul> <br>HTH, and good luck.. :o) <br> <b>Update:</b> Almost forgot a great resource, [http://wnt.cc.utexas.edu/~ccdv543/wlh/report2.cfm?DescriptorID=23|UTexas World Lecture Hall].. Go here first :o) 78049 78049