I just attended game five of the Kasparov vs. Deep Junior match, this time watching from the so-called VIP room. The game was quite striking because the...
I'll visit Toy Fair on Tuesday. Unfortunately, GATCO will not have a booth this year, due to health problems among the owners. That's not great news for...
Charles, thanks for a great synopsis of the games. It's really a nice archive. Perhaps others may want to add their play-by-play commentary about particular...
After several weeks of going cold turkey, we finally got an AI bot back up at Octi on-line. Thanks to Jeff and Steve for their help. We're currently running...
Hi All, I'm currently planning an Octi Tournament March 22-23. March 22 will see all rounds except the championship. March 23 will be the championship. All...
Since the proposed tourney fell during spring break, we'll reschedule. We're still workout out the dates... MSO Cambridge will host some sort of Octi event...
Hi. I've had a lot of fun over the past months playing Octi on Richard's pbem server. If your so inclined, sign up at gamerz.net and challenge me (my id is...
According to the rules of OCTI, a player has complete control over whether or not to capture a jumped piece, and that choice to capture is made on the level of...
The Fourth Annual Octi Robot Tournament is just around the corner...well, not really. It's way off, somewhere around the time that the semester ends at Yale...
The Fourth Annual Octi Robot Tournament is just around the corner...well, not really. It's way off, somewhere around the time that the semester ends at Yale...
Kids from Israel will be playing on line at 6:00 AM EST on Monday. Stop by if you're around. If you have a 6x7 bot, please fire it up, so that these...
I am coordinating with Dan to meet the children who won the Mind Game Olympics, which included Octi as one of its four events. It looks as though the meeting...
Hi, I moderate the Pente2 group at Yahoo, and we have been experiencing problems with spam also. The best way to deal with it seems to make the club...
A new game designed to be difficult for computers to win against people: "In an attempt to show that computers are not even close to matching the kind of real...
<snip> ... guys ... I certainly didn't come up with the idea of formulating a computer- resistant game, one can find lots of instances prior to June of 1998 ...
<delurk> ... Octi is definitely better. :) Some aspects of Arimaa are interesting to me (like the static trap squares), but I don't know how good of a game it...
... designed intentionally to be difficult for computers to play." whether or not this is true, and it may be, it is hardly compelling advertising. i haven't...
... I've ... Checkers, Chess, Backgammon, Go, ... What comes next? OCTI!!! Although the traps, the freezing, the pushing, and pulling are all moderately...
I am the moderator of another group at Yahoo, and I have been receiving similar spam recently. Seems that companies create a user that "joins" groups and posts...
Thanks, Mark. I followed your instructions to make the group restricted. Before the next obnoxious note gets posted, I will require that new users be...
Now that the Spammers have been stopped (at least for now) by the requirement that they tell me about their favorite Octi variant (hehe), we can get on with...
... I find it a little ironic that Octi, a game that was designed to be hard for a computer play, is already having its 4th tournament... 8^) -- / \__ |...
Belated thanks for this posting, which really made me feel good. Things in the world of Octi have been a bit rockly lately. On the good side, Octi continues...
The AI high score table for the robot that Aaron hooked up at www.octi.net has logged its 2700th recorded game (many games, of course go unrecorded, as people...
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