OTHELLO
Some C code that does a good job playing Othello (AKA Reversi) using the minimax algorithm with pruning. The evaluation function is mostly positional except that it favours raw colour count near the end-game (which may be a bad idea).

Setting the 'ply' to about 10 results in a few seconds per move. I believe I can't beat it at this setting, but haven't tried recently. Give it a shot yourself.

I would tackle the game of Go next, but that ship has already sailed.

The project files (VS 2015 Community) and source code are here:

Othello.zip


Play a game here:




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