Couldn't resist giving it a try myself and created my own program 'ben'. It was a good excuse to learn Python. Ended up with a solution that does a good job and can usually (19/20 times) beat the ones in included in the repo. Pushed my program up on github: http://github.com/icefox/cells
Here is a video (sorry using Quicktime which only grabs the whole screen and not a window) of evolving_chaos v.s. ben which is fun to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_-4rRmOCc
benvolution makes some tweaks to ben in order to defeat it. :) It does have a reasonable chance of stalemating, and of getting overwhelmed if the starting locations are close together.
Here is a video (sorry using Quicktime which only grabs the whole screen and not a window) of evolving_chaos v.s. ben which is fun to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_-4rRmOCc