Othello

. . .When I began this effort, my knowledge of both Othello and game-playing techniques was rudimentary....Since then, with about five man-months of effort, IAGO has been brought up to world-championship level.

- Paul Rosenbloom, from A World Championship-Level Othello Program

Games & Puzzles

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General Readings

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Robert Gatliff's Othello Page

Robert Gatliff's Othello Page. Maintained by Robert Gatliff. Includes a bibliography of articles about computer programs for Othello, as well as links to play Othello online.

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University of Alberta GAMES Group

Othello. From the University of Alberta GAMES Group. A nice collection of related links.

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Playing with AI

How machines have learned to play Othello, by Michael Buro. (This is one of the essays from the collection:Playing with AI. IEEE Intelligent Systems, November/December 1999.) Other papers available online from Michael Buro's collection include The IWEC-2002 Man-Machine Othello Match.

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Classic Articles & Books

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A world-championship-level Othello program

Available for a fee.

Manuscript available at Carnegie Mellon University.

Othello is a recent addition to the collection of games that have been examined within artificial intelligence. Advances have been rapid, yielding programs that have reached the level of world-championship play. This article describes the current champion Othello program, Iago. The work described here includes: (1) a task analysis of Othello; (2) the implemenation of a program based on this analysis and state-of-the-art AI gameplaying techniques; and (3) an evaluation of the program's performance through games played against other programs and comparisons with expert human play.

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By Rosenbloom, P. S. , 1982
classic, technical

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