Arimaa Forum - Print Page


    
      
        Arimaa Forum
        (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi)
      

        Arimaa >> Game Analysis >> Game 163782: Bot makes illegal move?
        
(Message started by: jfpierce on Dec 8^th, 2010, 10:25pm)

Title: Game 163782: Bot makes illegal move?
Post by jfpierce on Dec 8^th, 2010, 10:25pm

First off, hello to everyone. I'm still getting a hang of the basics of Arimaa, so I apologize if I'm overlooking something obvious here, but I have a question about a game a just played against bot_ArimaaScoreP1.
The game ended after silver moved and I received a message saying that the bot had made an illegal move. As far as I can tell, however, the move was legal (moving a rabbit from h7 to h3).
Is this a bug or is there actually something wrong with that move?

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/opengamewin.cgi?client=1&gameid=163782&role=v&side=w

Title: Re: Game 163782: Bot makes illegal move?
Post by Fritzlein on Dec 8^th, 2010, 11:35pm

Very weird. It was indeed a legal move, so it looks like a server malfunction to declare the game over. The only thing I can think of is that ArimaaScoreP1 somehow accidentally sent another move, and it was the later move that was deemed illegal. But that would be a type of server malfunction as well. Perhaps Omar can check the game log and get to the bottom of it.