Landon Curt Noll
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<h1>Grand Prize</h1>
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<p>Roemer B. Lievaart<br>
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VU Informatica<br>
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Churchilllaan 173-IV<br>
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands</p>
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<h2>Judges' remarks:</h2>
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<p>We believe that you too will be amazed at just how much power Mr. Lievaart
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packed into 1024 bytes!</p>
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<p>This Plays the game of reversi (Othello)! Compile and run. It then
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asks for a playing level. Enter 0-10 (easy-hard). It then asks for
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your move. A move is a number within 11-88, or a 99 to pass. Illegal
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moves (except for an illegal pass) are rejected. Then the computer
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does its move (or a 0 to pass), until the board is full.</p>
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<p>It plays rather well, for such a small program! Lievaart had to leave out the
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board printing routine, so you’ll have to take a real game board to
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play it. … Also due to space-limitations (the rules for 1987 had a
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limit of 1024 byes), Lievaart took out the passing-handler, which
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makes its ending-game rather poor. But further it knows all the
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rules, uses alpha-beta pruning, and it plays f.i. on mobility(!).
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Most important: it can play a pretty good game of Reversi!</p>
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<p>The Author was kind enough to supply the fully functional version of the
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program. The file lievaart2.c contains what the program would have
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been without the size restriction. This version has the full end game
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logic and displays the board after each move!</p>
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<p>Copyright © 1987, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
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All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
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granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
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and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
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from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.</p>
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