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...
I introduced Octi (1-base) today to some fellow software developers at work (one is an experienced Go player, for what it's worth). They both enjoyed it, and...
One nice thing about Octi is that handicapping is really easy. Just offer your opponent X prongs; if he/she wins, use X-1, ... and so on. Another approach,...
Although GATCO is no longer distributing Octi, I'm committed to keeping the websites that sell Octi (or Octi-X) on-line in stock. I noticed that funagain.com...
Sorry if this has been asked before-- It is sometimes possible for a pod to jump in a circle, and end on the same square. Suppose there's another pod also on...
I just found the post about the robot tournament. (My summer's was... a bit hectic.) I remember the idea had come up to require programs to be able to play...
Hi, Charles. The Octi-X were written to try to clarify this rule. (I admit, though, that it's pretty subtle.) The rules say that pods stacked together ignore...
Hi. My new game, Jumpin' Java, has now rolled off the assembly lines and into the stores. Pretty exciting, since the game is nicely made and packaged. See ...
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