The Java-Othello-game DEVASTATOR
The heart of this game was developed by Daniel Frey and me for
the "Praktikum Anwendungen wissensbasierter Systeme", TU Munich.
I ported it to java now.
Of course there is quite a bit loss of performance compared to
the original C++-code. But it depends
on your machine as well as your Java virtual machine implementation.
With a JIT-compiler nearly C++-speed is reached.
The strength of the game is quite good - it won the contest held
in the "Praktikum". So if you can beat it in a level greater or
equal to six, you probably are a good player (the level is the
depth of alpha-beta). Now try it...
Florian Lindauer, August 1997
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