This is the README file for IOI 2001 competition task Ioiwari. This directory includes - the task description, ioiwari.rtf - competition files to describe the "board", ie the starting distribution of the beads in the pits, ioiwari_n.in, where n=1,..,20 - code for the optimal player/opponent, ioiwari.c, ioiwari.p, ioiwari.cpp If you want to know why the optimal player is optimal, please see the IOI 2001 publication, which you can ftp from ftp://ftp.cs.uta.fi/pub/reports/pdf/A-2001-7.pdf