... 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,...
For those who entered last year's tournament, the tournament report is nearing completion (finally!). Many of you did not give a name for your program. In...
Why is it neccessary to designate each 'bot with a name? According to Lao Tzu: The Tao that can be spoken of is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name...
Don, I agree with the discarding of the repositioning rule. The repositioning of prongs does not seem worthwhile until a player is in a prong shortage, and a...
Hi, this letter is to all who interested in AI. More than half year I watch your discussions and would like to put into words few my minds. It is trivial to...
Seems like the Octi group was down yesterday. On the question of whether to allow all sorts of processors, how/where would folks actually run their programs?...
I have playtested Alvydas's suggestion to play Octi6x7 so that the object is to get all one's living pods onto the opponent's base(s), and it is terrific....
... An interesting question. Yes, there is potential for cheating if the programs are not run on-site. I wonder what sort of assurances are used in other...
... Well, the authors of the following programs will want to chime in, but here's what I know. I don't know of anything that's been distributed, but I know a...
Last year, we toyed with the idea of replaying the Octi tournament games over the Octi play-online server, so that programmers could follow the action...
Hi All and nice to meet you, I'm Nicola from Italy!I read about OCTI competition on comp.ai.games and I have subscribed Octi's mailing list just now. Octi is a...
Hi, Nicola, and welcome to the group. Charles Sutton just did a nice conference paper on last year's robots, which I hope he will be posting here soon. Also,...
I had a better outing at level 10 against the 6x7 bot, starting on the flank and sliding back to the center. But then I inadvertently added prong in the wrong...
With Alvydas's help, I'm putting together an example superprong game, with an edgeless board. I hadn't played superprong in awhile before starting in on this...
I posted puzzle #11 at http://www.octi.net/puzzles/index.html , based on a wicked move the computer put on me the other day. It's a nice example of how to...
It looks as though the new editions of Octi will arrive in late May, which means that they'll be coming to (US) stores in early June. In a way, I was sort of...
Latest Octi6x7 puzzle is up. The AI puzzlechecker thought for a good long while about it. I'm pleased to report that it agree with my solution for a change. ...
We should come to some kind of consensus about the rules for this year's robot tournament. Shall we play with "open platform" (any kind of computer) or...
I agree with Don. A standard platform is more suitable and fair for tournament participants. If the exact machine configuration is published before hand...
... published ... HD, ... code for ... write ... CPU! ... op=get&search=0x1D6E2644 Charles, Now, I would consider that an argument against common platform. ...
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