Daniel Lepage on 17 Jul 2003 04:09:01 -0000


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Political Go



On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 08:30  PM, Craig wrote:

Ending the game
---------------
The game ends when nobody has made a move for more than an Nweek.

Is there any guarantee that this will ever happen? Seems to me that if
nothing else, those players who lost lots of pieces can forestall their
point loss simply by swapping alliances once an nweek.

It should probably be "The game ends when nobody has placed a stone on the
board for more than an nweek."

A Territory is a set of empty board positions, connected by being
horizontally or vertically adjacent. Any player who has a stone
adjacent
to a Territory at the end of the game is considered to own a share of
that Territory.

If N players own a share of a Territory that contains M empty spaces,
then those players each receive M/N points, rounded down.

Don't the scores rise quite quickly based on the size and shape of the
territories? Cause if, say, I have stone in the middle of an otherwise
empty 3x3 block, I'm adjacent to 57 territories, by this rule. That's a
lotta points.

No, you're adjacent to one. And it has at least 8 spaces.

Not by this definition. There are 57 sets of empty board positions that would be adjacent to my location - 8 with one space, 8 with two spaces, 8 with three, 8w/4,5,6,and 7. And the one with all 8.

Make it an abnormally shaped empty hole, and it'll take us a week just to count all the different territories.

Each player also loses a point for each of eir stones that was captured
during the game.

Seems to me that people can keep playing stones until the board fills
up. Then scoring kicks in, and nobody gets any points at all. In fact,
almost every person who plays this game should come out with few points
than they went in with.

No, because if the board fills up, somebody's stones are all captured.

I take it you've never played Go, Wonko? If not, google it. Try the search
string Weiqi, which is the chinese name for it, since "go" is a common
English verb.

But if the board doesn't fill up, then there are legal moves I could make. So I will, and the game won't end.

BTW, would you mind if I ripped off some of this rule to establish an
Othello or Ataxx subgame?

Ataxx... that's the name series of games from Software Creations Hexxagon
comes from, isn't it?

I love Hexxagon.

I don't know. I only recently learned Ataxx; it's the one where a move consists of either placing a new stone next to one of yours, or jumping one of yours over a square; whenever you put a stone in a square by either means, you gain control of all adjacent stones.

By the way, I'm thinking about introducing a variant of the contest I tried to start in Agora, called Agoran Gamblers' Chess. However, since I'll be out of town for a while soon, would anyone mind if I just post the Agora rules
here and leave the B translation to y'all?

Go ahead.

--
Wonko

_______________________________________________
spoon-discuss mailing list
spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss