Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] [PGo] Alliance

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

> > > > Your move fails, because you didn't correctly represent the 
> > > > gamesate.
> > > >
> > > > Your stone at G3 should die - it now constitutes a surrounded 
> > > > Dragon,
> > > > as every piece in it belongs either to you or your Ally the Baron, 
> > > > but
> > > > none of the pieces around it are owned by a mutual ally of the two 
> > > > of
> > > > you (since Glotmorf and BvS aren't allied). In order for you to ally
> > > > with the Baron without losing anything, Glotmorf has to do it first.
> > > -You have some funny ideas, Wonko. I'm nowhere /near/ there, so his
> > > allying with me changes nothing in that area. And I'm sure we'd all
> > > appreciate it is you'd stop trying to raise false Dragons... sorry,
> > > been sitting on that one since the game started. Seriously, though.
> > > Thanks to Glotmorf's stone at G2, that Dragon is a big L-shape with a
> > > metric assload of Liberties. If I'm wrong, kindly explain how. And
> > > explain what I have to do with it.-
> >
> > A dragon is defined as a set of stones and a group of allies s.t. all
> > the stones in the set are adjacent to each other, all the stones in 
> > the
> > set are owned by members of the allied group, and no stones adjacent 
> > to
> > the set were owned by a mutual ally of those allies. Well, Rob's stone
> > at G3, now that he has an ally which  Glotmorf doesn't, is a set of
> > stones s.t. all the stones in the set are adjacent to each other, all
> > the stones in the set are owned by members of the group of you and 
> > him,
> > and there are no adjacent stones owned by mutual allies of you and 
> > him;
> > the set also has no adjacent empty locations, and therefore no
> > liberties; so it gets captured.
> -You must be joking me... It even says in the rule that a set AAABBCCC 
> would have AB and BC dragons. You're saying that set would have /no/ 
> multiplayer dragons, because A and C aren't allied. Rob is B. Glotmorf 
> is A. And I'm not a part of it, because my nearest stone is several 
> away. Give over, man. This is a lost cause.-

Well, I did give over; but not because it was a lost cause; I don't 
think you understood anything I said, since I certainly never said that 
AAABBCCC would have no multiplayer dragons; under my logic it would 
have 2 - AAABB, and BBCCC. Which, coincidentally, would be true under 
every single other possible interpretation that's been advanced so far.

But I did give it up, so it's a moot point now.

--
Wonko

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