Two Player Othello

[ProgrammingFun]

This is my final project for my ICS class.
It is a two player (no AI) modified version of the board game Othello based on text graphics.

Special thanks go to everyone who helped out here: http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=27367

Attached is a zip with a JAR file and a batch file.
To run the game, run the bath file and enter:

CMD:

java -jar Othello.jar

Enjoy the program and feel free to tell me what you think!

[Insectoid]

Awesome, now write an AI algorithm to beat the crap out of us. That's the real challenge .

[ProgrammingFun]

I might be writing an AI algorithm in the future...after I learn how to do so .

[Tony]

No, he means that it's

Insectoid @ Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:47 am wrote:

the real challenge .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi#Computer_opponents_and_research

Quote:

Because of difficulties in human lookahead?peculiar to Reversi because of the apparent strategic meaninglessness of internal disks (this makes blindfold games almost impossible) and the attractiveness of the game to programmers, the best Othello computer programs have easily defeated the best humans since 1980

[Insectoid]

I'd already read that when I posted it, and figured it's still be a modest challenge as compared to writing the game itself.

[ProgrammingFun]

I am going to make a sequence that randomly places a disk in a valid area....

That should be relatively easier....

[ProgrammingFun]

What do you think of the current program BTW?

[ProgrammingFun]

To save a game, you will need to make a folder called saveData in the same directory as the Othello.jar file.