Combined Fictitious Play with deep reinforcement learning to master DouDizhu, a three-player card game where two farmers cooperate against the landlord.
DouDizhu is one of the most popular card games in China, with an estimated 600 million players worldwide. It is a three-player game where two farmers cooperate against the landlord. By treating the two farmers as a single player, the game can be modeled as a two-player zero-sum setting, enabling the application of game-theoretic algorithms like Fictitious Play.
FPDou achieved state-of-the-art performance on DouDizhu, outperforming both open-source and closed-source models. It ranked first among 452 bots on the Botzone platform.