Magnos Technologies's answer to What will be some basic level mini artificial Intelligence project? - Quora

Basic version: implement a two-player game letting two different algorithms / sets of parameters play against each other. Basic version: implement an alpha-beta pruning algorithm so that it stops computation and returns the best move found so far, when it runs out of "wallclock" time. Extension 2: propose / code a modification of -- e.g. If the sum of times spent on selecting a move by a given player exceeds this time, that player loses. You can assume, that a player "thinks" only during its move (when you do not want to use multithreading).