Othello game loop

Hi,

I designed a game loop for my othello program. I used a new approach, but i still felt it might contain something illogical. Can i ask you to hava quick look at it and spot out any obvious errors? You know, other ppl tend to see errors more quickly ^.^

Code:

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Main game loop
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  display splash

  print board and other visual elements

  ask for game mode, single, 2-player or demo-play
 
    if ( mode == 1 )
          ask for difficulty

    flip coin, decide who moves first, b or w (human player is always black)

    while ( gameEnd == false )
 
          display orange new piece

          if ( gameMode == 1 || gameMode == 2 )
                if no legal moves for currentPlayer
                      pass
                else
                      get move until a legal move is chosen
                      make move, flipping pieces
          else if ( gameMode == 0 )
                if no legal moves for currentPlayer
                      pass
                else
                      make move using minimax algorithm
         
          change current player
         
          update score
          check game ended? If yes gameEnd = true, display scores and winner
          when ESC key is pressed, gameEnd = true

      ask if start a new game
            if yes goto newGame;
     
      end program

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Looks fine to me. Good luck on the AI, Othello is a little tougher than some of the others to write AI for. Many times the winner of the game is the person who is losing, losing, losing, and then suddenly at the very end takes over the board. Kinda hard to teach a comp that!

A little quibble - if the human's black, the human should always go first. AFAIK, black always goes first in Othello.

edit: Other than that, looks good - let me know when it's done (I love that game) :D

Ahh!!!! An error i found. In "If game mode is 1 or 2" how would the compiler know if the current player is computer or human? I corrected to the following:

Code:

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Main game loop
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  display splash

  print board and other visual elements

  ask for game mode, single, 2-player or demo-play
 
    if ( mode == 1 )
          ask for difficulty

    flip coin, decide who moves first, b or w (human player is always black)

    while ( gameEnd == false )
 
          display orange new piece

          if ( gameMode == 1 || gameMode == 2 )
                if no legal moves for currentPlayer
                      pass
                else       
            if humanOrComp(currentPlayer) == HUMAN
                              get move until a legal move is chosen
                              make move, flipping pieces
            else
                    make move using minimax algorithm
          else if ( gameMode == 0 )
                if no legal moves for currentPlayer
                      pass
                else
                      make move using minimax algorithm
         
          change current player
         
          update score
          check game ended? If yes gameEnd = true, display scores and winner
          when ESC key is pressed, gameEnd = true

      ask if start a new game
            if yes goto newGame;
     
      end program

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My question is is there any way to to remove the duplicate of line "make move using minimax algorithm"?