I can't be more of a direct help, but you might try the Perl-AI mailing list. You can subscribe, but first you should try searching the archive, which can be found at http://archive.develooper.com/perl-ai@perl.org/index.html#00000 or http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/topics/perl. (The latter had a search form last time I checked, but Activesate seems to be unreachable for me right now.)

Also, and forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, try a search on terms like "ai game-playing" over at Google. A few relevant things popped up for me using those terms.

-- Frag.