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From: David Coppit <coppit@virginia.edu>
Subject: Announcing a Java-Based Othello Server with AI players.
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http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dae4e/java/jothello/

A group of us here at the University of Virginia have built a Java-based
Othello Server.  People with Java-enabled browsers can log in via the URL
above and play against other people or the computer.

Three of the computer players are running in serial, and the fourth is
running in parallel over 20 computers ranging from Sparc 2's to 
SparcServer 10's.

Our computer players, which use alpha beta pruning, are able to look 4
to 6 levels deep. Our parallel version beats the serial version twice as
much, and appears to be able to go one level deeper on average. The
serial version can beat the world's best player (a computer) when it is
only searching three moves ahead.

Try it out. If you find the computer players too easy, send us email and
we'll set them to think for more than the few seconds that they're
currently at.
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David Coppit - Graduate Student        coppit@virginia.edu
The University of Virginia             http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q
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