Edax is a very strong othello program. Its main features are:
- fast bitboard based & multithreaded engine.
- accurate midgame-evaluation function.
- opening book learning capability.
- text based rich interface.
- multi-protocol support to connect to graphical interfaces or play on Internet (GGS).
- multi-OS support to run under MS-Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Installation: From the release section of github, you must 7unzip both an executable of your favorite OS, and the evaluation weights (data/eval.dat) in the same directory. Only 64 bit executable with popcount support are provided.