Logistello is a computer program that plays the game
Othello
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, also known as Reversi. Logistello was written by
Michael Buro
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and is regarded as a strong player, having beaten the human world champion
Takeshi Murakami
Reversi is a strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. It was invented in 1883. Othello, a variant with a fixed initial setup of the board, was patented in 1971.
Basics
There are sixty-four identical game piece ...
six games to none in 1997 — the best Othello programs are now much stronger than any human player. Logistello's evaluation function is based on disc patterns and features over a million numerical parameters which were tuned using
linear regression
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External links
* {{official website, https://skatgame.net/mburo/log.html
Game artificial intelligence
Reversi software