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This section presents the details of the progress made up to this date. The initial plan, as it was described in the previous document (c/f Project Proposal and Plan), was to be complete the requirement analysis and specifications by this point. Necessary reading, primarily concerning game theory, should have been almost completed by this point too, as well as some reading about the graphical aspects, bearing in mind that the graphical domain can, at this point, be accommodated by some simple I/O facilities such as a terminal/shell under Unix.
It is now well known and defined what is to be achieved and design work can take place shortly. Many of the issues concerning the construction of the game-playing engine have now been resolved too. Literature sources on game theory have provided me with sufficient knowledge about the process that needs to be carried out in order to predict the opponent's moves and the process of evaluation. Furthermore, supplementary notes and on-line sources have given me some better insight into techniques of designing and coding game-playing applications.
What is required to be achieved by the system is more precisely recorded in various sketches in my project log book as well as in section 4.