The firm "Nir for Science," which makes giant versions of Abalone and Quoridor, will soon be coming out with a giant version of Octi, to be shown in Nuremburg...
by giant octi, do you mean a) the board has more squares and you get more pods and more pegs and there's more bases, or b) it's the standard game but...
Also, is it the new Octi Extreme board, or one of the classic designs? Benjamin C Good <good7972@...> wrote:by giant octi, do you mean a) the board has...
Yes, this is a company that makes those larger-than-life versions of classic games. I expect that they will be making the 6x7 version, since that is what is...
If you're working on a 'bot for this year's 9x9 competition, let me know (octimon@...). Jeff's program "testme2" awaits its competitors for the 2002...
We now have two robots, from Charles and Jeff, that play the 1-base and 3-base games. We'll be testing out the bots today to make sure they run properly at...
Robot competition will take place tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, featuring a 1-base bout between Charlesbot and Jeffbot. Should be fun. The moves will be...
Congratulations to Charles and Jeff, whose bots competed today in the 3-base competition. (We had originally planned to run the 1- base tourney, but some...
Thanks to Jeff, I now have two compatible version of the Jeffbot to run simultaneously, which will cut my bot-management time in half when Jeffbot faces...
Thanks to Aaron for simplifying the server protocol and posting it online! I remember the previous protocol, and this is a great improvement. Does anyone have...
Jeff made a clean sweep of the tournament by winning the one-base 9x9 competition. Charlesbot, which made a good go of it in the 3- base game was overwhelmed...
I'm happy to announce that the final piece of the "old" Octi Online, its game archive, has now been updated and moved to Octi-Online.com . To view the over...
Jeff's Octi bots are playing remotely from the Statlab over break, and they seem to be pretty stable (they've been on-line for about a week). Give them a try...
When the Yale Statlab reopens on Monday, the bots, *sniff*, have to go away -- at least until we find a dedicated platform for them somewhere. So enjoy the...
Hi Andy, AFAIK, we haven't discussed yet writing a report on this year's tournament, although it's something that we should do. I wrote a report on last...
Andy's message reminded me of the horribly out-of-date list I have of extant Octi programs. If you have an Octi program (or description thereof) available...
... work? ... The computer programs I'm aware of all basically work like chess programs do. An overview of how chess programs work is given by tony Marsland...
Let me throw this question out to the group: What are "typical" strategies for Octi games? For example, this might be a prototypical three-square game: 1....
... This is a neat question, and I've had fun mulling it over. Another motif in Octi (3-base) is to offer a sacrifice that has the dual purpose of drawing an...
I miss those bots at Octi on-line...*sniff* I am just waiting on a network card for a computer that will reside at the Yale Statlab. Once it's up, it will run...
Hi. I don't like to post non-Octi related stuff at the group site, but I thought you might like to see my latest game, which will be shown at the NY Toy Fair...
Steve at the Statlab is finding that the AI programs we were using before are crashing on the new dedicated machine (which is a bit older and slower that the...
I go off to NY tomorrow to meet Shay Buchinsky, inventor of the chess AI called Junior, and to see Junior play Kasparov at the NY Athletic Club (an odd venue...
I attended the FIDE chess match between Deep Junior and Garry Kasparov on Sunday night, dining with the Deep Junior programming team after the game. I have...
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