From vclaudepierre@groupama-ge.fr Mon Jan 6 12:53:50 CST 2003 Article: 191538 of sci.math Path: news!husk.cso.niu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: vclaudepierre@groupama-ge.fr (Valy) Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Is checkers game completely understood? Date: 6 Jan 2003 09:08:38 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <3DEF21EF.894CC236@uesc.br> <3df028cd$0$3713$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> <3DF1F461.638577F0@uesc.br> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.6.174.251 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1041872918 24327 127.0.0.1 (6 Jan 2003 17:08:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Jan 2003 17:08:38 GMT Xref: news sci.math:191538 Humberto Jose Bortolossi wrote in message news:<3DF1F461.638577F0@uesc.br>... > Hi! > > Do you have references about reversi win strategy? > Thanks, Humberto. > hjbortol@uesc.br > > imothep wrote: > > > > No checkers is not solved. > > Reversi is and the 1st player can allways force a win. > > > > "Humberto Jose Bortolossi" wrote in message > > news:3DEF21EF.894CC236@uesc.br... > > > Hi! > > > > > > I've heard that someone proved that who starts a checkers > > > game always wins. I mean there is an algorithm that if followed > > > correctly makes the first player a winner, no matter what > > > the second player moves. > > > > > > Is it really true? Could someone point me references > > > about the subject? > > > > > > Thanks, Humberto. > > > hjbortol@uesc.br Hi. Othello is 6x6 solved, thx to J. Feinstein if I remember well. Othello 8x8 is not, or prove it. Zebra cannot yet. For win strategy, see for example this site : http://perso.club-internet.fr/abulmo/edax/ ; it links Java companion Ajax with the basics. Another French man listed most of Othello programs : google at Bruno Turquet De La Boisserie.