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Welcome to the Yahoo! Message Board for OCTI Club...
octimon
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Mar 27, 2000
3:00 am
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The best times to play OCTI at www.octi.net are Fridays at 9:00 PM EST or Sundays 4:00 PM EST. Hope to see you there!<br><br>--Octimon...
octimon
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Mar 27, 2000
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Do you think that OCTI does in fact give humans a better chance against computer than other games (i.e., chess)?...
octimon
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Mar 28, 2000
10:04 pm
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URL www.octi.net has zillions code and graphics for the kids version of OCTI. Great for on-line play. It will soon be posted also at...
octimon
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Mar 29, 2000
11:52 pm
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Hi. If you're having trouble hooking up with other players at www.octi.net, post a message here to let us know when you want to play.<br><br>--octimon...
octimon
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Apr 1, 2000
3:18 am
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Are you experiencing bugs or freeze-ups when logging on to octi on-line? If so, let us know the computer and type of browser you're using. <br>--octimon...
octimon
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Apr 3, 2000
1:32 am
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When does the law of large numbers kick in?<br>10 doesn't seem very large -- huge standard errors.<br><br>I might even find some unstandard errors to make...
CT_or_Bust
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Apr 5, 2000
7:59 pm
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Consider the rate of growth. Our OCTI club membership has expanded by a factor of seven over two weeks' time. If we grow by seven-fold every two weeks for six ...
octimon
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Apr 6, 2000
8:06 pm
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Well, my club, has grown 36-fold in two weeks time, which means it may encompass many of those ex-terristrials we don't know about yet with the same growth...
cjr_imo
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Apr 6, 2000
10:10 pm
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Join the Yale OCTI club at noon at the Donaldson Commons (corner of Prospect and Sachem) at noon on Thursdays. <br><br>Also, come play OCTI on the Old ...
octimon
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Apr 8, 2000
12:45 am
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Shall we have an on-line tournament? If so, should we play it all at once, or should we pair off and play whenever (something like a ladder system)?...
octimon
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Apr 8, 2000
12:15 pm
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Yeah, OCTI is now in the "top 20" clubs. Watch out world!...
octimon
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Apr 11, 2000
10:01 pm
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Hope to see you on-line this evening!...
octimon
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Apr 14, 2000
6:28 pm
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Now there is another zillions-of-games version of octi. Unlike the one on www.octi.net, this one plays an offensive game. It's not bad (and more fun to play),...
octimon
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Apr 16, 2000
1:33 am
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There's a new version of octi on-line that's currently being beta tested. It's much more stable and flexible...Stay tuned.<br><br>--Octimon...
octimon
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Apr 17, 2000
5:58 pm
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To beta-test a great new zillions-of-games version of OCTI, go to<br><br> <a href=http://www.scat.demon.co.uk/octi-beta.zip...
octimon
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Apr 20, 2000
12:58 pm
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I won't know for sure until I actually start coding up an AI and see how miserably it fails (:<br><br>-Pace...
eca212
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Apr 24, 2000
3:13 am
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Post the heuristics that you think an AI version of OCTI ought to consider.<br><br>For starters, here are some of mine.<br><br>1. Try to keep friendly pieces...
octimon
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Apr 26, 2000
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4. Maximize the number of possible moves for friendly pieces.<br><br>5. Minimize the number of possible moves for enemy pieces.<br><br>6. Minimize the number ...
eca212
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May 1, 2000
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11. Try to cause your opponent to run short of prongs and pods. <br><br>12. If you have an advantage in materiel, play for time, so that you can...
octimon
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May 1, 2000
8:33 pm
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I thought i would instead collect my thoughts on Octi on a web page, just as I did with trax... (hope you don't mind, Don) starting with a small illustrated...
cjr_imo
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May 1, 2000
9:24 pm
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I have run chess tournaments before - I would be happy to run an Octi tournament sometime, too....
ira212
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May 2, 2000
1:27 am
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Nice graphics, Cjr. I need a bit more guidance as to the octi-for-kids puzzle. Whose turn is it, and how many turns until victory?<br><br>I think that the ...
octimon
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May 2, 2000
8:45 pm
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Great. We will have an on-line tourney as soon as Eoin produces the new version of the the octi on-line code -- I hope that's in the next two weeks!<br><br>In ...
octimon
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May 2, 2000
8:48 pm
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For the puzzle, any player to play and win (i think). I also worked a little on a new Octi page, to be in my series of abstract games pages only including Trax...
cjr_imo
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May 2, 2000
10:05 pm
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I like your octi page(s) a lot. The only thing I don't quite understand are the lines that emanate from some of the pieces -- are these ways of showing how the...
octimon
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May 3, 2000
12:37 pm
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Ok, here is the deal... the puzzle image is at <a href=http://host.bip.net/trax/octi/strat/octi0011.gif...
cjr_imo
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May 3, 2000
1:43 pm
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Perhaps the computer should always check to see whether it is possible to lose the game in, say, 5 or six moves. If so, it needs to adopt a set of 'yikes' ...
octimon
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May 3, 2000
9:41 pm
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The best prices I've seen lately for OCTI (www.octi.net) are<br> <br>www.kbtoys.com $14.95<br>BoulderGames.com $18.80<br>www.funagain.com $23.95<br> <br>Grab ...
octimon
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May 5, 2000
12:39 pm
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Let's start a ladder tournament. As with a tennis ladder, we start with a list of names in an arbitrary order. You can challenge the person immediately above ...
octimon
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