A world-championship-level Othello program

Available for a fee. Manuscript available at Carnegie Mellon University https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/A_world-championship-level_Othello_program/6602903. 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. Artificial Intelligence, 19, 279-320.