FPGA implementation of a strong Reversi player

In this article, we present a design of a Reversi player submitted to the FPT´10 Design Competition and implemented on a XC2VP30 Virtex-II Pro FPGA. Our player applies several techniques to explore the solution space attempting to look as many moves forward as possible for the given time, and uses several metrics to evaluate the quality of a given board. The most important metric is the mobility, basically our player attempts to maximise its available moves whereas minimising the opponent moves. With these techniques our player easily defeats the competition software opponent.