Thanks to various Octi enthusiasts, it seems that we have the French & German translations covered, with a Korean translation on its way and a Hebrew ...
A couple of snow days finally got me to work on the four player tutorial. Please have a look and give me feedback, corrections, etc.<br><br>I decided to ...
While putting together the 4 player tutorial I ran across a notational isssue that I hadn't thought about, albeit a minor one. What should the notation be for...
Chuck mopped the floor with me last night when we played on-line, but at least I got a puzzle out of it. Red to move and win in 3 in "More 2 Player Puzzles"...
Easy puzzle: Blue to move and take all. Blue moves on an edgeless board 62-44-22-49x-42x-22x.<br><br>Latest puzzle: Red to move and win in 3. Red moves ...
Good morning Dave, err... Dan, err... Don and others,<br><br>It was not until I started formulating this post that I realized the irony of using the name of a ...
Hi. Just back from vacation, where Dean and I explored the depths of the 'fast break opening' in the 1-base game. Also read some interesting books on machine ...
HAL, glad to have another Charles aboard. It's great that you're interested in AI applications to OCTI. Right now, it looks as though the robot tournament will...
Two Octi-related books I would recommend, based on my reading over spring break (yes, this is my nerdy idea of a poolside page-turner):<br><br>Machine ...
Purely "deterministic" techniques that predict the result to the end are very difficult to use in Octi. This is because they require to split the game into a...
I agree that the Winning Ways approach of dividing games into independent subgames (as in Nim) doesn't work for Octi. <br><br>Your idea of redescribing ...
Here are some things I would like to see added to Octi on-line.<br><br>1) Get it working! This naturally supercedes all other features. When I run the program...
continued from the last post<br><br>6) Have players decide before hand whether they are trying to take one, two, or three bases and whether they are using an...
'Get it working' is right. Once again, we find ourselves in a situation where the server is down and Eoin cannot be found. I'd like to reopen the question of ...
FYI,<br><br>1) Not my area of responsibility<br><br>2) Can java produce sound with small effort?<br><br>3) I'm currently building a new server from the scratch...
Still no word from Eoin, who tends the Octi on-line server. I've left lots of messages for him. I'll keep you posted.<br><br>Vector, you closed your note with...
When there's undo possibility in the games all moves must be stored by the server anyway. It's then trivial task to generate Orac like dumps from the server ...
>When there's undo possibility in the games all >moves must be stored by the server anyway. It's >then trivial task to generate Orac like dumps ...
Eoin says that the t1 cable is being repaired and that his server (which hosts octi on-line) should be up by tonight or tomorrow. <br><br>So let's try to get...
In the best case, I may be back playing too then :) - I managed to relay my connection around my stupid isp, so if my relay server will only run java i'll be...
Hi,<br><br>I have a few questions:<br><br><br>1. Who makes the first move: White or Black?<br>2. How is Octi usually played in tournaments? With an edgeless...
Sounds great.<br><br>One question though. Will the saved games be in ASCII format like the Orac files? I am gearing up to right an AI and I would like to have...
Hello!<br><br>No official tournaments have been played yet. <br><br>1. Probably black.<br><br>2. The most likely answer would be without super-prong and with...
1) Well, the obvious answer is it makes no difference since the board starts out symmetrical, however earlier some others were discussing the perspective of ...
Hi. The question of starting color has come up before, and it's my fault for not creating some kind of standard convention. The odd thing is that we have Red ...
Hi all.<br><br>My apologies. The server was down all last week, due to an unexpected IP address change. Its back up now, but please note the following: ...
My latest posting in Photos (under More 2 Player Puzzles) stems from a series of 1-base games with Dean. White to move and, I believe, win. If anybody can find...
I don't know which version of Orac you are using, but if you are using the python script octibot.py, you can simply change the ip in one of the first lines of...
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