Rules of the game:

1. The game is be played on a 10x10 grid.
2. Each competitor will place each of 5 ships (of lengths 2, 3, 3, 4, 5) on their grid.
3. No ships may overlap, but they may be adjacent.
4. The competitors then take turns firing single shots at their opponent.
5. The opponent will notify the competitor if the shot sinks, hits, or misses.
6. Game play ends when all of the ships of any one player are sunk.
7. Match ends when one of the opponents reach 501 victories.

Rules of the competition:

1. The spirit of the competition is to find the best Battleship algorithm.
2. Anything that is deemed against the spirit of the competition will be grounds for disqualification.
3. Interfering with an opponent (i.e. via reflection) is against the spirit of the competition.
4. A limit of 4 second of CPU time per game is allotted to each competitor on the primary thread.
5. Running out of time results in losing the current game.
6. Any unhandled exception will result in losing the current game.
7. Code should be posted on stack overflow as an answer, or, if too large, linked.
8. Max total size (un-compressed) of an entry is 1 MB. A. Your entry must implement the IBattleshipOpponent interface or must impement the protocol defined by the OutOfProcessOpponent and communicate via the standard input and output