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Engineering · 04

Training Hint Models (and Why We Stopped)

How we used to train opponent-specific hint models with CMA-ES, why one call to Elite replaced the whole pipeline, and where we'd like to take it next.

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Strategy · 03

Claim the Interior, Starve the Edges

Why corners cap at 6, why the 1-away pivot captures territory, and how to think about Cell Division as a zero-sum margin game.

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Primer · 01

How to Play Cell Division

Place cells, build connections, outscore your opponent — a visual walkthrough of the rules, scoring, and AI tiers.

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Engineering · 02

Building the Cell Division AI

Three linear tiers built on 14 hand-crafted features, plus an Elite CNN distilled from an AlphaZero teacher — the full AI stack behind Cell Division.

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