Piccolo vs AI Satranç

• #1 Most Downloaded Game (April, May, June, July 2021) — Japan Mac App Store! • Featured in Apple's "What We're Playing", "Games We Love" and "Best Games Made in France"! • "Beautiful, minimalistic and highly addictive." — TouchArcade • "A simple but captivating game." — Mac4Ever • "From us, this small but fine application therefore receives an absolute recommendation." — Appgefahren • "Whether you're a fan of the game or not, Piccolo will make you love Othello." — MaxiApple Piccolo® is the best Othello app for iPhone®, iPad® and Mac®. It features a strong, fast AI on top of a polished user interface, with beautiful themes, advanced features, online play and more. Piccolo is available in 20 languages and comes with no ads or tracking. It's an Othello app made for Othello players by Othello lovers. • Strong AI: Piccolo features a custom Othello AI engine written in the Rust programming language, designed to be fast, challenging and customizable. The AI's default Level 1 difficulty can be beaten by beginners, while its Level 8 difficulty is likely to challenge even top Othello masters around the world. Designed from scratch, the Piccolo AI engine is sure to give seasoned Othello players a new type of opponent to play against, with often surprising and creative strategies. • User Experience: Piccolo features a native user experience designed for iOS and macOS. A modern design lets you focus on the game, with helpful move indicators, the ability to undo moves, and automatic game saves between every move in case you close the app by mistake or your phone's battery runs out. Multiplayer play is supported both locally and online. • Themes: Piccolo features a variety of beautiful themes to customize and breathe fresh life into your Othello experience. Othello veterans might enjoy sticking to the Classic theme, while others might prefer the handsome Seasoned Wood theme, the adorable Sailor Moon theme or even the Persian Spray theme, inspired by traditional Iranian ceramics. Additional themes designed by guest artist Aline Corrêa are also available, giving you access to an Othello game on top of an alligator lake, inside an ancient castle, next to Egyptian pyramids, and more! • Play Online: Piccolo Online is a free online service that lets you connect with friends via easily exchangeable Game Codes to play friendly Othello games wherever you are around the world. Piccolo Online also supports automatic matchmaking so that you can quickly play games with random opponents worldwide. Piccolo Online features quick, stable connections, and benefits from a strong privacy policy. • Cute iMessage Stickers: Send cute “chibi”-style iMessage stickers to your friends with Piccolo's bundled iMessage Sticker Pack! Featuring 36 custom illustrations drawn by anime artist Erica Li, the stickers feature Piccolo's adorable mascot in different relatable situations. • No Ads, No Tracking: Unlike a majority of games on the App Store today, Piccolo has no terms you need to accept before playing. Piccolo will never show you a single ad, and will never track you. The app is entirely a labor of love for the game of Othello, made by players for players. • Available in 20 Languages: Thanks to contributions from players around the world, Piccolo has been translated from English into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. No matter where you are, Piccolo's interface will be easy to understand. Othello® is a registered trademark of MegaHouse Corporation. Piccolo: Othello is an independent implementation of the underlying game, which is placed in the public domain.

This chess app doesn't know chess. Yet. Most chess apps ship with a ready-made, unbeatable engine. AI Satranç doesn't. The AI was born with a brain made of nothing but random numbers, knowing no chess at all. It knows the rules, but it is still learning to play well; today it is still a beginner. And it keeps learning. From your games, from every player's games, right in front of you. ◆ A REAL AI THAT REALLY LEARNS The method of the open-source Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) project: a neural network paired with Monte Carlo tree search. The AI sees the last 8 positions together; before every move it plays out hundreds of possible continuations in its head and predicts the chances of a win, draw or loss and how long the game will last. In the games it plays against itself, it learns to replace its first intuition with the move it found by thinking deeply. There is no built-in chess engine and no model brought in from outside: everything it knows, it learned from games played in the app. ◆ MEET ITS BRAIN • The collective brain's version: every new version reaches everyone's device • This device's contribution: the games you play and the ones it plays in training • "What it's thinking": the candidates it considered most on each move, and its winning chances • A live evaluation bar above the board ◆ SELF-TRAINING Open the Training tab, tap Start Training and watch the AI play against itself live. Like Leela Chess Zero's volunteer computers, the training data of every game goes to the collective brain, which is trained on it. One day it will beat you. The only question is when. ◆ ONE BRAIN, RAISED TOGETHER Training happens in one place, with every player's data: every game you play goes to the collective brain and its positions join training after being re-thought; your moves aren't copied, so a bad move can't spoil the brain. When a new version is ready it reaches everyone's device. What is sent is games' moves, results and training data — not your name, your account or any personal data. ◆ WHILE YOU PLAY • Drag or tap, both work • Four difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard, Master • Hint arrow: what would the AI play here? • Four board themes, light and dark appearance • A game in progress is never lost; pick up where you left off • Undo, resign, play as white, black or random • Every game archived, replayable move by move and shareable as PGN • Castling, en passant, promotion, threefold repetition, the 50-move rule: every rule ◆ ALL YOURS No account, no sign-in, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. Plays offline; your games reach the collective brain once you're online. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. A small warning: this is not a "strong opponent out of the box" app. The AI starts weak, on purpose. The point is to raise it. Watching how it learns is far more exciting than watching it win.