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Arimaa / Off Topic Discussion / Re: Christian Freeling on inventing games (part 2) |
Aug 18th, 2019, 7:04am |
| Started by christianF | Last post by christianF |
Ed will be off on a holiday shortly but look where we are. Today Explocus was added with an AI that was already invincible back in the eighties. That makes twenty games so far that can be played without java.
Eight of them feature AI's. However, the column checkers AI's don't have the obligation of 'maximal capture' implemented yet and in human vs. human play they don't expect it to be followed, so in that case players should look to it. The 'undo' feature may come in handy in such a case.
The regular draughts games (Draughts, Dameo, Hexdame) do have maximal capture implemented. The ploblem with column checkers (Emergo, Hexemergo, Stapeldammen) is that a piece can be jumped more than once in the same turn. It's in the pipeline. Meanwhile Hexemergo is crazy enough to feature the AI for the fun of it: it will usually capture maximally anyway and it's not hard to beat by players who understand the game.
Not so with Explocus, equally crazy if not more. You can't beat it because there are no players yet who understand the game.
The rules yes, no problem, but not the game. 
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Arimaa / General Discussion / Discord |
Aug 7th, 2019, 1:22pm |
| Started by aaaa | Last post by aaaa |
Whenever this site is down, it pretty much puts the entire Arimaa community into a forced coma. For that reason, I've started a Discord server, which I hope gets off the ground and can serve as an alternative meeting place:
https://discord.gg/YCH3FSp
You should obviously bookmark or store this link somewhere. |
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Arimaa / Site Discussion / Re: 4steps - standalone Arimaa client |
Jun 25th, 2019, 8:17am |
| Started by aaaa | Last post by aaaa |
| 4steps will now optionally animate moves by playing out the steps its made of (although these are themselves still shown instantly). Replaying the previous move manually is always possible by pressing middle-click. It's also possible to configure the delay between steps by editing 4steps.ini. Re- and undoing steps can now be done with the mouse wheel. |
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Arimaa / Site Discussion / Re: Corrupted game file? |
Jun 14th, 2019, 3:42pm |
| Started by Hippo | Last post by Hippo |
I have decided to resign ... losing some GMR, and unfortunatey WHR as well.
The reson for resigning was to get rid of the open game ... and what a surprise, I have lost and the game stayed open  . |
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Arimaa / General Discussion / Re: Bug in Arimaa Game Client? |
Feb 22nd, 2019, 2:44pm |
| Started by dpalmer | Last post by Max2 |
More moves which do not work in this position:
1. rd6s Ee6w Rf6x Ed6w Ec6x rd5n (from first post)
2. rd6s Ee6w Rf6x Ed6w Ec6x dd7s
3. Ee6s Rf6x Ee5n Ee6e Ef6x rd6e
4. Ee6n Rf6x Ee5s Ee6e Ef6x rd6e
All this moves have in common:
- the gold rabbit is captured passiv with first step
- the gold elephant captures itself with third step
- the 4th step pull by captured elephant is not allowed
(- all 4 steps are used
not neccessary; reproduced bug with 3 steps in other position)
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