Reversi Bots Galore!

Klarna Programming Contest 2011

Contest Goals

• Create a bot that plays Reversi over the net.

• Or create a nice RESTful GUI to watch the bots battle it out.

• Or try your hands at OTP and improve the servers handling the battling.

Bot creation

We at Klarna love hacks, beautiful code and clever algorithms. Therefore we want You to create the best Reversi playing bot possible. • You can use any language (that we can run on our linux machines)

• Judges will look both on how well the bot plays,

and clever ideas used in making it.

• Simple clients in Erlang will be provided to get you started.

GUI creation

The web needs to be beautified! Show of your talent in creating a killer RESTful GUI to watch the bots playing in real time. • The GUI should be able to run in either Chrome or

Firefox on Linux.

• It should talk REST with JSON objects.

• Of course it should be drop dead beautiful.

Erlang plumbing

Having tons of bots hammering our game servers will probably cause some meltdowns.

• Help us improve it! Code will be available on

github.com

• Try out making scalable servers with OTP.

Prizes

1. Ipad

2. Ipod touch

3. Ipod nano

4-5. Ipod shuffle

Deadline & contact • Deadline March 30th 2011

• To participate, telnet to kpc2011.klarna.com 7676.

Get protocol description by typing: {help}. and press enter.

• More information: klarna.com/klarnacomp2011

• Questions: klarnacomp2011@klarna.com

Happy Hacking!