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- Grand Prize: <botter!rblieva> Roemer B. Lievaart
-
- Roemer B. Lievaart
- VU Informatica
- Churchilllaan 173-IV
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-
- We believe that you too will be amazed at just how much power Mr. Lievaart
- packed into 1024 bytes!
-
- This Plays the game of reversi (Othello)! Compile and run. It then
- asks for a playing level. Enter 0-10 (easy-hard). It then asks for
- your move. A move is a number within 11-88, or a 99 to pass. Illegal
- moves (except for an illegal pass) are rejected. Then the computer
- does its move (or a 0 to pass), until the board is full. It plays
- rather well, for such a small program! Lievaart had to leave out the
- board printing routine, so you'll have to take a real game board to
- play it. ... Also due to space-limitations (the rules for 1987 had a
- limit of 1024 byes), Lievaart took out the passing-handler, which
- makes its ending-game rather poor. But further it knows all the
- rules, uses alpha-beta pruning, and it plays f.i. on mobility(!).
- Most important: it can play a pretty good game of Reversi!
-
- The Author was kind enough to supply the fully functional version of the
- program. The file lievaart2.c contains what the program would have
- been without the size restriction. This version has the full end game
- logic and displays the board after each move!
-