This paper describes some initial experimental results in the use and limits of applying experience-based learning techniques to the area of game playing. A system (GINA) has been developed that uses experience-based learning to improve its own base performance level for the game of Othello. A variety of traditional (non-learning) Othello game playing programs have been collected to provide a r...

In this paper we present an intelligent Othello game player that combines game-specific heuristics with machine learning techniques for move selection. Five game specific heuristics have been proposed; some of which can be generalized to fit other games. For machine learning techniques, the normal Minimax algorithm along with a custom variation is used as a base. Genetic algorithms and neural n...

This report is intended to inform the reader about our experiences and strategies in programming an artificially intelligent Othello client. More specifically, we will describe what went right, what went wrong, and what we would do if we were to do it again. There is a brief discussion on various searching, training, and evaluation techniques, accompanied by analysis on what we found to work th...

This paper presents ideas concerning game{tree evaluation that recently improved the author's strong Othello program LOGISTELLO considerably. Two main parts of this program have been reened. In the rst part of this paper, a new evaluation function for Othello is described. While it is table{based like its predecessors , a novel procedure for estimating table entries now allows modeling pattern ...

This paper describes the inner workings of Keyano, a competitive Othello program that has achieved many top-three nishes in tournament play over the last ve years. The unique features of Keyano's midgame search routine, evaluation function and opening book are described in this paper.

Othello was the most often-staged Shakespeare play on early Soviet stages, to a large extent because of its ideological utility. Interpreted with close attention racial conflict, this came symbolize, for theatres and audiences, destructive racism West in contrast egalitarianism. In first decades twenty-first century, however, it is not unusual Russian stage as white character, thus eliminating ...

The so-called “third world” has often experienced modernity and its version of the “city” in some of their most grotesque forms where Iran has not been an exception. In other words, North-Atlantic powers have historically played the midwife for a father-figure-like modernity and its “third world” concubines, the result of which has been the birth of “monstrosities” of all kinds. Focusing mainly...