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other computer programs
Posted:
Dec 14, 2001, 10:42 PM
Zillions of Games has a fairly good pente opponent -- but you should modify the rules of its ninuki game for it to play true pente. I challenged my program and Barykin's program against Zillions thinking at 3 minutes per move and both of our programs beat Zillions 2-0, but they were decent games.
A good program for LINUX systems is available - Bill's program, I now have a link to it on my page. It was written some years ago when computers were slower so it only thinks up to 6 moves ahead (like my level 6). I challenged my level 6 against his program and we split games. If he had time to update and improve it (which he doesn't) it could be very good.
A couple of fairly decent programs are Pentango and PowerPente. Pentango is available as shareware, there is a link on my page, PowerPente is no longer available. Mark Okun is continually working on his Java XO program, but I have not gotten it to play well against me. The other programs I have seen are terrible. Anyone know of any other decent programs?
-MM
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
Re: Other Computer Programs
Posted:
Dec 15, 2001, 11:05 PM
I've found three programs for the (Classic) Mac. None of them are particularly strong or attractive, but Mike Willegal's Cinco plays the best game of the three -- roughly the same as level four or five of Mammel's Pente program. The other two programs are called Pente and MacPente.
Michael Sinz has a program for the Palm OS but I don't know how well it plays.
I've put up links to several programs, including Mac, UNIX, Palm OS and DOS/OS2 software, at
Re: Other Computer Programs
Posted:
Dec 28, 2001, 11:49 AM
MacPente, at its toughest difficulty level, seems to be a little weaker than level two of Mammel's Pente. I sometimes see it make arbitrary moves and I'm not sure if this is intentional or not.
Pente (for the Mac) appears to be roughly equivalent to level four of Mammel's program. Cinco can beat level four a little less than 2/3 of the time. I would try playing Cinco against a higher level of Mammel's Pente, but the emulator I have was written for a much older Mac and it runs too slowly for that.
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
