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clojure
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Scoring a position for deciding winner
« on: Oct 26th, 2010, 11:00am » |
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I just went through the tournament rules to see what happens if two bots would try to play the game as long as possible (time-wise).
I found that after eight ( 8 ) hours, the game is decided by score. http://arimaa.com/arimaa/learn/matchRules.html
I couldn't find anywhere what this score means. Could someone elaborate? Also is it possible to have a draw score-wise?
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Re: Scoring a position for deciding winner
« Reply #1 on: Oct 27th, 2010, 6:23am » |
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There used to be a scoring system but it is no longer used.
The rules for this situation are explained near the top of the match rules page:
Quote:| If a game is stopped due to reaching the time control limit, then the player who currently has or most recently had more pieces left after the completion of a turn wins. Otherwise the player to move second wins. |
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A draw is not possible.
Further down the page scoring is still mentioned:
Quote:For practical reasons a total game time (G) may be
set. If the game is not finished within this allotted time
then the game is halted and the winner is determined by
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This is probable a left over from the original rules and can be confusing. I think it would be better to remove all mentioning of scoring. Or alternatively the rule at the top of the page should include that this is what is meant by scoring the game or determining the winner by score.
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clojure
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Re: Scoring a position for deciding winner
« Reply #2 on: Oct 27th, 2010, 7:26am » |
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on Oct 27th, 2010, 6:23am, woh wrote:
This is probable a left over from the original rules and can be confusing. |
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Yes. I meant the second one. It's very confusing. There are mentions of the score in the examples also.
Thanks for the explanation.
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Re: Scoring a position for deciding winner
« Reply #3 on: Oct 27th, 2010, 11:04pm » |
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Thanks for pointing this out. I modified the page to mention that "the player who currently has or most recently had more pieces left after the completion of a turn wins. Otherwise the player to move second wins" is the scoring method. So later references to scoring the game are referring to this.
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Re: Scoring a position for deciding winner
« Reply #4 on: Dec 21st, 2010, 12:32pm » |
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on Oct 27th, 2010, 11:04pm, omar wrote:| Thanks for pointing this out. I modified the page to mention that "the player who currently has or most recently had more pieces left after the completion of a turn wins. Otherwise the player to move second wins" is the scoring method. So later references to scoring the game are referring to this. |
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Does "the player to move second" mean Silver? Or just the player who hasn't the turn at that moment?
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Re: Scoring a position for deciding winner
« Reply #5 on: Dec 23rd, 2010, 9:02am » |
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It means the silver player. I just updated the Match Rules page to note that it means silver.
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