![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) simont |
Tue 2002-07-23 06:27 |
The thing is, Othello does have some deep strategy. I basically play heuristically, with a mental database of Dumb Mistakes To Avoid When Playing On An Edge Because They Would Let The Opponent Into The Corner; this works most of the time against Iagno, but just occasionally I find myself in a position where it's carefully arranged that none of the places I'd like to occupy for positional purposes can actually be played in because there's nothing I'd capture by going there, and then I have to move somewhere stupid and hand it the game. I'd like to play against a better computer strategist which could deliberately play for that sort of thing instead of achieving it once in a while by dumb luck; but I don't really feel up to trying to encode my own strategy into a computer program, and even if I did it would precisely not have the property I'd be looking for.
I wonder what to play next, then. GNU Go is quite a lot better than I am, but it doesn't really work as a two-minute break in the middle of coding - it's more of a serious twenty-minute effort. And chess has never been my game... |
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