Glad that we're back up and running; I was getting a little worried that we had lost the group... I've got a few new puzzles that I've been meaning to post. I...
Back from a week of sunshine and a bit of poolside Octi. I came back with a few good puzzles, which I hope to post over the next day or two. I'm really...
Hi All, I've tried to play online a few times this week at www.octi.net, but keep getting the following error: [ ERROR ] Not connected to the Octi Server. [...
Hi, Sorry, just a test to see if it accepts email postings so I can bypass the crazy tiny-voyeur-camera ads that Yahoo! relentlessly advertises!!!! 33+b 57+e ...
Ok, it's x's turn to move (don=x) and neither side has any prongs. I'm playing the computer at level 10 (ok, so there was *one* undo earlier in the game, but...
It came out all right in email. I think you need to add the tags "<pre>" and "</pre>" around preformatted texts. test: <pre> ... </pre> ... -- Charles Chiou...
Strangely, mine browser still displays it wrong on your note, Chuck, even with the tags, yet it looks okay now that I see it in the reply window(!). At any...
Aaron A put the new puzzle through the AI, and the position is a win for side 2, not side 1! After the 43-61 retreat, side 2 can respond with 57-35 rather then...
Thanks to Aaron, who supplied me with a puzzle checker for the Octi6x7 game, I should be making fewer mistakes! More puzzles coming soon. I have several for...
Just added puzzle #35 to the puzzles link at www.octi.net. Kind of a neat situation in which the attacker looks good, but a simple move proves devastating. ...
SAVE THAT DATE! The Third Annual Octi Robot tournament will be held this year on November 9th. We'll have *three* brackets this year: 1. Octi 6x7 board:...
Sounds good! I guess I'll have to go for the triple crown, just kidding :) BTW, Don, do you plan on entering your own robots into the tournaments too? I...
... Sounds good :) I might actually manage to finish mine this year (unlike last year) ... been a bit more into programming lately, though mostly working on...
... Yes, to play the Octi6x7 robot, go to www.octi.net and follow the link to "play the robot." ... Not to worry. The trusty folks at the Statlab will help...
A small reminder for those programming the 9x9 version: with the release of the new editions of Octi, repositioning prongs is no longer permitted. That's one...
I got permission to put up a (free) announcement about the upcoming bot tourney at www.gameai.com. That's a start. And I have some inquiries in to other...
Don, I modified the paramters a bit and it seems to be a little better. It seems to me that a trely random board is not meaningful. Perahps instead of picking...
... It does seem better. Actually, I'm coming back around to the idea of using these boards as training for the AI, based on the last 5-10 that I've looked...
... release of the new editions of Octi, repositioning prongs is no longer permitted. that's news to me. i'm curious as to what motivated this? is because...
So what do people think: should we run all the programs on PC hardware, as we've done in the past, or is the time right to have an "open" category where people...
... Hi, Ben. My thinking was that (1) the rule seldom came into play (almost never, actually, in the fast game for 1 base) and (2) where it would come into...
No, I think there's some confusion here. The superprong variant *never* allowed repositioning of prongs (in either the old Octi or the new Octi-X). In fact,...
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