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        sirius - Othello for Gnome.
        
        - Sirius is a program for playing the game of othello. The program includes an AI
(Artificial Intelligence) opponent which plays at a very challenging level and
is actually quite hard to beat. The AI opponent's strength can therefore be
adjusted in several ways to give you a suitable opponent.
The AI opponent uses a plain alpha-beta search with hashing to figure out which
move to make. To be able to tell a good position from a bad one, it uses a
pattern based evaluation function. The pattern used is the 9 discs surrounding
each corner and the 8 discs creating the edge of the board. The evaluation
function also takes mobility, potential mobility and parity into count. For the
initial 9 moves the AI opponent optionally uses a simple opening book. During
midgame it searches and evaluates about 200.000 nodes per second on a PIII
750 MHz, in the endgame this number is significantly higher due to more
transpositions and a less expensive evaluation function. 
Packages
        
            
                | Name | Version | Release | Type | Size | Built | 
            
                | sirius | 0.8.0 | 3 | src | 1.80 MiB | Fri Feb 11 22:17:16 2005 | 
        
        Changelog
        
            - * Fri Feb 11 17:00:00 2005 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora[AT]leemhuis[DOT]info> - 0.8.0-3
- - Include autoreconf patch; Fixes x86_64 build 
            - * Thu Nov 11 17:00:00 2004 Phillip Compton <pcompton[AT]proteinmedia.com> - 0.8.0-0.fdr.2
- - Version bump/Spec cleanup. 
            - * Mon Sep  1 18:00:00 2003 Phillip Compton <pcompton[AT]proteinmedia.com> - 0:0.8.0-0.fdr.1
- - Updated to 0.8.0.