# Measuring Board Game Distance

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03913 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.03913/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 6 of its 15 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Jan 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Ludii -- The Ludemic General Game System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.05013/) (2019)
- [Modern Techniques for Ancient Games](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.10066/) (2020)
- [General Board Game Concepts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.01078/) (2021)
- [General Game Heuristic Prediction Based on Ludeme Descriptions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.12846/) (2021)
- [A Continuous Information Gain Measure to Find the Most Discriminatory Problems for AI Benchmarking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.02904/) (2018)
- [Transfer of Fully Convolutional Policy-Value Networks Between Games and Game Variants](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.12375/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [GAVEL: Generating Games Via Evolution and Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.09388/) (2024)
- [Grammar-based Game Description Generation using Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.17404/) (2024)
- [Grammar and Gameplay-aligned RL for Game Description Generation with LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.15783/) (2025)
- [Best Agent Identification for General Game Playing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.00451/) (2025)
- [A Research Agenda for Usability and Generalisation in Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.16970/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents a general approach for measuring distances between board games within the Ludii general game system. These distances are calculated using a previously published set of general board game concepts, each of which represents a common game idea or shared property. Our results compare and contrast two different measures of distance, highlighting the subjective nature of such metrics and discussing the different ways that they can be interpreted.