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Highly amusing board game
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lines  is an  interactive COHERENT  version of a  two-player board  game by
Claude Soucie  called Lines of Action.  The screen  displays the game board
with ``X''  and ``O'' characters  marking the positions of  the pieces.  To
see the rules of the game, type ``r'' and then press <Enter>.  To see
the available interactive commands, type ``h'' and press <Enter>.

Two players  can use lines to  keep track of a game  between them by moving
with the  ``M'' command.   Alternatively, one  player can play  against the
computer by moving with the  ``m'' command.  The program uses a tree-search
technique to consider possible moves; the  player can vary the speed of the
program's  replies with  commands  that change  the tree  search width  and
depth.

For a more detailed description of Lines of Action, see A Gamut of Games by
Sid Sackson (New York, Random House, 1969).

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