Logistello is a computer program that plays the game

Othello ''Othello'' (full title: ''The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice'') is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) fought for the control of the Island of Cypru ...

, also known as Reversi. Logistello was written by

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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

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External links

* {{official website, https://skatgame.net/mburo/log.html Game artificial intelligence Reversi software