This is a real pleasure - a demo 20 years and 1 day in the making. Ludowars is an online competition to build the very best Ludo-bot in the universe.
This benchmark has a very very long history - I built the first version of this for Demodag perhaps 20 years ago - but only completed the game engine and the sandbox at the time.
This weekend I finally added all the missing bits - a leaderboard and even a tiny neural network library so you can build real AIs that compete in-browser against the best Ludo AIs out there.
The current world number 1 is Ludowars' own inaugural models with the top flight being Mensch-256.
I obviously built this on a lark many years ago and had a lot of fun with the very crude Canvas visualizer still used by the site - if you read the logs you can still find old jQuery errors as a testament to the age. But I like having built a really simple benchmark letting you train really simple neural models to play a very well known game.
I hope you have fun with it and look forward to welcoming your bots.
Use this post if you have any comments or questions about the benchmark/leaderboard.