GG, ROBOT

Anyone who’s played a single-player videogame recently – and the chances are you have – will appreciate the very special kind of artificial stupidity necessary to make you feel like you’re getting a decent challenge, but that it was your finely honed skills that finally allowed you to triumph rather than pre-programmed flaws in AI strategy.

Putting up a stiff challenge without cheating – no reading the player’s inputs, reacting to the first frame of an attack or psychically knowing where his units are – is a difficult thing to code. But what if you wanted