{"id":536,"date":"2025-05-17T23:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=536"},"modified":"2025-05-17T23:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:17:52","slug":"othello-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Othello Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Play the computer or another player in the classic mind game where\u00a0you must outflank your opponent to capture his pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-537\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Written in MSX-Basic and plays a fairly strong game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always been quite pleased at how well the computer AI plays, and it is a good example of using a weighted points system to present a list of the most favourite moves for an AI player to randomly choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/MSX\/OTHELLO.BAS\">Download<\/a> the MSX version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video of the game is available here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Electric Adventures, The Games - Othello Challenger\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dtCVvmDz2us?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play the computer or another player in the classic mind game where\u00a0you must outflank your opponent to capture his pieces. Written in MSX-Basic and plays a fairly strong game.&nbsp; I have always been quite pleased at how well the computer AI plays, and it is a good example of using a weighted points system to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legacy-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}