Othello Tournament Rules

Tournament Date

Wednesday, May, 02, 2007 at 11 AM: we begin to load your Othello strategy to the machines in Symonds 2.
Tournament begins at noon on the same day in Symonds 2 lab.
Depending on the number of entries, we may or may not have a second round on Friday to determine the winner.

Rules

The Othello tournament is totally optional and will not affect your grade in any negative manner. Everyone is encouraged to participate simply it is a lot of fun! On top of that, the winner will get 10 points added to the current numerical weighted class grade (100 pts total), the second place winner will get 7 points, the third place winner will get 4 points, and the fourth place winner will get 1 point.
E-mail comp212@ to notify us of your intention to participate and let us know if you will come to the tournament and have pizzas with us. Let us know what toppings you prefer. We need a count of attendees to order the appropriate amount of pizzas.
Name your strategy OthelloStrat. Use your username as the package name for your strategy. This package MUST be completely self-contained. This means it must contain all your AlphaBeta classes and Accumulator classes. In addition, your package must contain at the first level a pre-compiled OthelloStrat.class file. This also means that your package must be a top-level package at the same level as view, model, and controller. Do not have it inside your model package. You must follow all the standard interfaces. We will use reflection to load your player. Remember the naming conventions asked for in the Project write up. Be sure that your strategy has either a constructor that takes no parameters or a constructor that takes a single IModel parameter! The strategy you will be using for the tournament is not required for your regular project submission. These directions are imperative, and if not followed, you may be disqualified from the tournament. If you are worried about whether you got everything correct, show up to the tournament and if there is a problem you can help us correct it before the tournament. If your code doesn't work and we can't figure it out, you will be disqualified.
The general rule is your strategy should not violate any of the rules of the real game. In a real game, you cannot alter the moves of your opponent in any way, so your strategy should not do that. Along the same line, your strategy should not attempt to interfere with the time in order to prevent the opponent from legitimately uses his/her time to compute the next move. No networking capability is allowed either. Play it like a real one-on-one game.
There is a mediocre strategy written by your humble instructors (DXN & SBW) that you may want to use to test against your own strategy. The strategy name is Comp212Prof.SBW_DXN_strategy.
Submit ONLY your strategy package using the assignment OWLSPACE page. The name of the "assignment" is Othello. Your strategy must be turned in by 11:00am Wednesday. We will turn off OWLSPACE at this time so we have a chance to check everyone's submission and load it.
The maximum time you have for each move is 60 seconds.
The tournament will be in a round-robin style. You will each play once as white and once as black against each other player. You do not have to be present to participate. However, everyone is encouraged to show up at the final round. Lunch (pizzas) will be served.
Winners will be notified by email and posted on the web page.
Any issues not explicitly addressed in this document will be decided by the tournament administrators. These rules are setup to make things as fair as possible. Any foul play will result in immediate disqualification.
Any questions? e-mail comp212@

Results

Here are the tournament results.

Othello Spring 07 - Result 1
	Team O
TEAM X	jtb1 (Brannan/Rog)	nbhtc13 (Hirsch/Charytoniuk)	jiaokun (Jiao)	kkm1 (Montrose)	spo1 (O'Brien)	ths2 (Segall-Shapiro)	kkn1ces2 (Spare/Nair)	0
jtb1 (Brannan/Rog)	-12	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
nbhtc13 (Hirsch/Charytoniuk)	1	4	1	1	-1	1	1
jiaokun (Jiao)	1	1	1	1	-1	-1	1
kkm1 (Montrose)	1	-1	0	-1	-1	-1	1
spo1 (O'Brien)	1	1	1	1	12	1	1
ths2 (Segall-Shapiro)	1	1	-1	-1	-1	2	1
kkn1ces2 (Spare/Nair)	1	-1	1	-1	-1	-1	-6
								0

Except for one strategy that was compiled under Java 1.6 instead of 1.5 and had to be recompiled, we had no problem loading the strategies. This means that everyone followed the given directions properly. Thank you for your participation.

First place winner: spo1 (O'Brien) - he is unbeaten!
Second place: nbhtc13 (Hirsch/Charytoniuk)
Third place: ths2(Segall-Shapiro)
Fourth place: jiaokun (Jiao)

Congratulations to you all!

Have a great summer and a great geek career!

The Spring 2007 Comp 212 Teaching Staff

Last Revised Wednesday, 02-May-2007 13:56:35 CDT 05/02/2007 01:56 PM