Ntest is a strong othello program. It can be used in command-line mode or using the graphical viewer NBoard.

Requirements:

• Windows, Mac, or Linux.
• On x86, popcnt instruction. This is available on most Intel CPUs since 2009 and AMD systems since 2008. You will get an error message if trying to run on a computer without popcnt.
• 64 bit builds are highly recommended, though 32 bit builds should work as well.

The preferred way of building ntest is through akro build, a C++ build system that I (Vlad Petric) developed.

You should be able to easily install it if you already have a recent Ruby (>= 2.2) as follows:

gem install akro

Then:

cd src/

akro release/ntest.exe

To quickly run a benchmark:

./release/ntest.exe t

The benchmark tests both the solver (from 26 empties), and the midgame searcher (36 empties, depth of 26).

For x86 builds, cmake should work as well. See BuildREADME.txt

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