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(Message started by: supersamu on Mar 18^th, 2012, 3:51pm)

Title: supersamu vs. bot_Arimaazilla
Post by supersamu on Mar 18^th, 2012, 3:51pm

Hello,
i recently played this game against a bot:

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/opengamewin.cgi?client=1&gameid=220972&role=v&side=b
I read the wikibook before this game and tried to implement strategies.
I succeded in the camel hostage, but i didnt profit very much from it. Can you tell me what my mistakes were?
Here is the comments section of my game:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=220972
I know that i did a lot of single and silly mistakes from moves 25 to 40, but i would like if you could concentrate the critics on the big picture.

Thank you for your time

P.S. this is my first post

Title: Re: supersamu vs. bot_Arimaazilla
Post by Manuel on Mar 19^th, 2012, 3:53am

Considering the number of games you played, I think you played this game rather well.

Your biggest mistake was to leave the F3 trap with only one defender on 36g. You can see how much damage came from losing that trap...

On the camel hostage: the one thing you want to prevent is that your opponent brings two additional defenders to the C3 trap, because when he does that his elephant can leave and your advantage is gone (12s). You responded well in pushing them away again.
Then a trick bots use often is to put one of your own pieces in the trap such that you have one step too few to capture the camel (13s, 14s, 16s). The answer to that (in this case) would have been to step your dog to C4 instead of to D3; then it cannot be pushed immediately back into C3 and the elephant would have to come back to defend C3, leaving F3 completely to you. Especially on 19g, you should have used your fourth step to step your dog to C4.

Lastly: framing pieces only works when they are hold with stronger pieces on all sides. Otherwise it is just a waste of steps... (20g, 22g, 24g)

But in general I think you responded reasonably well to the problems that were served to you, and the general idea of making threats at several traps at the same time you did well.