Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Tafl anyone?

[Zarpint Jeremy Cook <mcfoufou@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2003, at 11:35 AM, Craig wrote:
> > I'm leaning toward the suggestion above of only giving each player one
> > Hnefi, and removing em from the game once it escapes.
>
> The problem there is that it will be, in many cases, to everyone's
> benefit for another player to be removed from the game. So why would we
> try to stop an escaping player? And if there's no incentive to stop an
> escaping player, what differentiates this from a bunch of people
> sitting around gaining Tafl points for no reason?

Nothing, of course-the game would be broken unless Retired players could
still prevent escapers, like Wonko said. How about when Retired, you can
still place Pawns, but not Hnefi, and your Pawns are cheaper? Or a player
loses points when captured by a Retired player?

If we do institute a Ko rule here, let's add something that limits the number
of recent positions. I'm not sure if chess does that, but if we only had to
look at ten previous positions, there'd be no problem with introducing Ko
(unless there were loops with length >10).

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