AI contest: Connect four

[LuckY]

Had to change your for loops so that x is declared in each loop, not just the first, like the standard says.

I appreciate your smugness and must note that, standard or not standard, what you've described is not compiler independent. I prefer using for loops the way you describe as standard, but Microsoft is intent on stopping me from practicing using my preferred technique. (in any case pardon my lack of standardized code).

Maybe the other players have some test bots as well?

I just had my AI play against itself and sometimes I played against it and other times both.

[PJYelton]

I prefer using for loops the way you describe as standard, but Microsoft is intent on stopping me from practicing using my preferred technique.

I feel your pain, that drives me nuts with MSVC++ as well meaning I have to declare the variable outside the loop everytime if theres even a chance that it might be compiled with anything else. Grrrrr...

Dang, if I had known so few people would have entered, I would have kept my initial AI which had a completely different eval function and way of picking moves. It played all right but it was slow so I unfortunately trashed it when I redid the AI.

[Sang-drax]

Jeremy might still submit; he seemed quite interested, but he hasn't been online since before the dark period.

[XSquared]

I feel your pain, that drives me nuts with MSVC++ as well meaning I have to declare the variable outside the loop everytime if theres even a chance that it might be compiled with anything else. Grrrrr...

#define for if( 0 ); else for

[LuckY]

#define for if( 0 ); else for

That's nice. Even simpler:

#define for if (1) for

or even simpler than that, Microsoft could actually follow the standard.

[jlou]

Don't make it too simple (yours has unexpected results here):

if (isFalse)
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
        cout << i << endl;
else
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
        cout << 10 - i << endl;

[LuckY]

good point.