DroidZebra is a front-end for well-know Zebra Othello Engine written by Gunnar Andersson. It is one the world's strongest othello-playing programs - now on Android. Search for DroidZebra on Android market
1.0 release includes:
- Zebra engine
- opening book
- 11 levels of play
- undo functionality
- human vs zebra, human vs human, zebra vs zebra play
- move history
- opening names
- display of a principal variation and position evaluation
- touchscreen, trackball and keys support
The game requires Android 1.6 or above and approximately 10MB of external or internal storage for opening book and position info. There may be a long delay when running the application for the first time as it unpacks and caches the opening book.
Main Scree
n:- Last 4 moves
- Opening name
- Principal variation
- Current eval
- Level of play (look-ahead in number of moves). Mid - midgame, Last: endgame, W/L: win/loss solving
- Last move indicator: blue dot in the lower left corner
- red cross in the middle: possible move indicator
General Othello resources:
Othello Club: http://grou.ps/othelloclub/home
Othello wiki: http://www.othello.dk/book/index.php/Main_Page
Sites to play online:
PlayOK (kurnik): http://www.playok.com/
Yahoo!Japan (in japanese): http://games.yahoo.co.jp/games/login.html?page=rv
