Connect Four Tournament Page

This page has all of the materials and announcements relevant to the end-of-year Connect Four tournament.

The tournament had three teams, and had a round-robin format. Each team played a two game-series (alternating Red and Black) against each of the other two teams. The teams finished in the following order:

2nd place (tie): L. Hwang and N. Kruchten/T. Reichert (each with 1 win, 3 losses)
1st place: I. Kilpatrick/J. Zebchuk (4 wins, no losses)

For their efforts, the second-place winners receive $20 gift certificates to chapters.ca, and the first-place winners take home a $40 gift certificate to chapters.ca, which they can promptly spend on textbooks for this semester. :-)

For those of you who are curious, you can see the move history of each game. No running commentary is provided, but feel free to add your own. :-)

Rules and Instructions
Code

Sunday, December 3 (UPDATED)

Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries for the Connect Four tournament has been extended to midnight.

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Some people were having problems with one of the functions (getPiece). The compiler wasn't being helpful, and produced a couple of different object (.o) files, depending on what mood it was in: one that worked, and one that didn't. Hopefully, these newly compiled IRIX and Linux versions will work.

Friday, December 1

Some new files pertaining to the Connect Four tournament have been posted (including an actual board implementation on which you can test your player). An important addition to the TBoard interface is the clone method, which allows you to clone a board (so that you may manipulate the clone to "try out" moves).