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Tournament Results

Ntest is optimized for standard-start othello games.

Tournament	1st	2nd
Standard start position
18 May 2002	Ntest	Yohoho
18 Jan 2003	Ntest	Edax
Other start positions
19 Jan 2002	Ntest	Edax
7 Apr 2002	Spock	Ntest
22 Jun 2002	Yohoho	Ntest
7 Dec 2002	Piglet	Caesar
18 May 2003	Ntest	marc
14 May 2004	Ntest	cruel+
30 Oct 2004	Saio	cruel+

30 Mar 2005: Even bigger book available

Dan Lidstrom has provided his latest 20-ply opening book. This one is 50% larger than Dan's previous "Bigger book"! Get it from the downloads section.

5 Jan 2005: NBoard version 1.1 available!

New in version 1.1:

Database: Filter by player name, location, year, result, or opening (click between the row header and the first item)
Edit menu: Flip board, paste move-list, paste board as text
View menu: Display best 1/2/4/all moves, View coordinates, highlight best move or all legal moves
Engine menu: User-selectable depth
Database menu: Unload games to save memory
Reduced flicker
Minor bug fixes
Some searches automatically saved to book to speed reviewing

New features for Ntest's command-line interface (see instructions.html to learn how to use it):

Have Ntest play on the internet to build your book
Analyze games in move-list format, e.g. "1. F5 2. D6" or "F5d6"
Additional edmundization modes

Downloads

Ntest	Ntest + NBoard. NBoard.exe is the GUI, read instructions.htm if you want to use the command-line interface.
Bigger book	A large book calculated at 20-ply by Dan Lidstrom. 3.59MB zipped/12MB unzipped
NBrowser	A GUI to view the book conveniently. Written by Edmund Yiu. NBrowser homepage

Download Source

The source is for the version as of Sep-2004 making it somewhat outdated but still pretty good.

Download the source code. It requires the GDK.
Include all .cpp files when you compile except off_precoded.cpp(#included in another file).
You need to enable RTTI and set the GDK directory as an #include directory
For MSVC you need to link in wsock32.lib
The directory is hardcoded to c:\devl\othello. If you don't like this change it in options.cpp.

Really advanced users can download the coefficient calculator, which is quite finicky and requires all the files that ntest source does as well as its own special files.

To learn ntest's tricks, see How it works.

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