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omar
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Arimaa Glossary
« on: Jul 31st, 2008, 3:29pm » |
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I added a few terms to the Arimaa Glossary on wikibooks.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Arimaa/Glossary
It is amazing how many different concepts there are in Arimaa now. I tend to forget about some of them at times 
The terms I added are: False Protection, Mutual Protection, Elimination, Fence, Flip, Invade, Overload, Overwhelm, Replacement, Swarm and Cram.
Also made a note on the Draw term that draws are no long possible.
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #1 on: Jul 31st, 2008, 4:08pm » |
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Is there a consensus on whether a flip must be "180 degrees"? How about we call any pull and push combination involving the same pieces in one move a "swing" and let "flip" denote the abovementioned special case of it?
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #2 on: Jul 31st, 2008, 8:43pm » |
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How about 'Swing' means moving opponents weaker piece 90 degrees clockwise and 'Counter Swing' means moving the weaker piece 90 degrees counter clockwise.
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #3 on: Aug 1st, 2008, 11:56am » |
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How about a Birdie for a goal in one, an Eagle for a goal in two (much harder to find than a birdie), an Albatross for a goal in three and a Condor for a goal in four ( a definite exploit in Arimaa)?
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #4 on: Aug 1st, 2008, 12:40pm » |
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Continuing the animal theme, how about if a mistake that allows goal in one is a skunk, a mistake that allows goal in two is a squirrel, and a mistake that allows goal in three is a mole?
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #5 on: Aug 1st, 2008, 1:25pm » |
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are you guys trying to confuse me with the golf and animal themes aswell as the animal pieces!! 
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #6 on: Aug 2nd, 2008, 9:17pm » |
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you don't have swindle
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #7 on: Aug 3rd, 2008, 11:12am » |
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Swindle?? Even I don't know what that means
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #8 on: Aug 3rd, 2008, 11:50am » |
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on Aug 3rd, 2008, 11:12am, omar wrote:| Swindle?? Even I don't know what that means |
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Neither did I until PMertens taught me. 
Incidentally, in my book, I am going to differentiate between a pin and a frame. If an elephant is pinned to a framed horse, then it will be an "elephant pin", whereas if a rabbit is pinned to a framed horse, i.e if the horse is going to die next turn, (see game 71143, move 22s), then I'm going to call it a "horse frame". There is so much difference between a tactical means of winning material and a strategic means of tying up the opposing elephant that I think it needs a different name.
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #9 on: Aug 3rd, 2008, 2:39pm » |
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on Aug 3rd, 2008, 11:12am, omar wrote:Swindle?? Even I don't know what that means
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Something that looks like a forced goal but isn't. Quite subjective I admit.
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #10 on: Aug 3rd, 2008, 6:00pm » |
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on Aug 3rd, 2008, 11:50am, Fritzlein wrote:
If an elephant is pinned to a framed horse, then it will be an "elephant pin" |
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And how about the elephant that is safeguarding a trap because the opponent's elephant is holding a camel hostage?
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #11 on: Sep 27th, 2008, 3:47pm » |
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"Instatrade" for when pieces of both sides are trapped on the same move.
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #12 on: Sep 27th, 2008, 4:06pm » |
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on Aug 3rd, 2008, 6:00pm, BlackKnight wrote:
And how about the elephant that is safeguarding a trap because the opponent's elephant is holding a camel hostage? |
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We could say the defensive elephant is "tethered" to the trap.
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Re: Arimaa Glossary
« Reply #13 on: Sep 29th, 2008, 6:14am » |
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on Sep 27th, 2008, 3:47pm, aaaa wrote:| "Instatrade" for when pieces of both sides are trapped on the same move. |
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Do you mean on one player's move only? If that is the case - this is very rare. It did happen in one of my recent games with arimaa_master where he gave up a framed rabbit and captured one of my rabbits in the same move.
Or did you mean over the course of 1 move for each player?
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