The Othello Tournament

We will use the Yahoo Games Reversi platform for the Othello tournament. You will need to set up your account the first time you access this. Each team runs its own Othello player and manually transfers moves to Yahoo Games Reversi. Any convenient location may be chosen for playing the game.

Rules

1. For the tournament, each team gets 30 seconds only for making its move.
2. Each round will consist of two games. Each team goes first once. The score of each team is the sum of the number of its pieces remaining on the board at the end of each game.
3. In case the program of a team crashes or it makes an illegal move, the game will be restarted. If the program of the same team crashes twice, the round is forfeited to the other team.

One of the round participants must email the scores at the end of the round to the instructor and the TA, copying to all other members of both the teams. The rounds must be conducted within four days once the round participants become known.

The tournament tree is given below and will be updated with the progress of the tournament.