Fedora 7 Test Update: sirius-0.8.0-11.fc7

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-2429
2007-10-08 15:00:10.129748
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Name        : sirius
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 0.8.0
Release     : 11.fc7
URL         : http://sirius.bitvis.nu/
Summary     : Reversi game for Gnome
Description :
Sirius is a program for playing the game of reversi. 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.

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Update Information:

Sirius is a program for playing the game of reversi. 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.
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Updated packages:

feb94582457652343be6f25226caf5c232ec110a sirius-0.8.0-11.fc7.ppc64.rpm
a3cb4a76796a4014cf43df5ae651c26fe67a714a sirius-debuginfo-0.8.0-11.fc7.ppc64.rpm
8d1f8e910c33c5c95be27f793205724ad687a44b sirius-debuginfo-0.8.0-11.fc7.i386.rpm
315ef7c9bbe086e03a0518bf3c400ac207faac24 sirius-0.8.0-11.fc7.i386.rpm
fb4f995df172d090ac42fb899e9e8cca94fc2039 sirius-debuginfo-0.8.0-11.fc7.x86_64.rpm
15bba36385ea8cedd73efebcc58f2b06deda2417 sirius-0.8.0-11.fc7.x86_64.rpm
7f1fa570e2a78a023550e1364d6b4a9cddf10607 sirius-debuginfo-0.8.0-11.fc7.ppc.rpm
0e68cda90d776cbe7b760fffe71e544525e7e6df sirius-0.8.0-11.fc7.ppc.rpm
59ecc40d70bffd57bb51e2e505fc7a7f20cb44fd sirius-0.8.0-11.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sirius' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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