Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 08:19:59 03/05/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 10:49:51, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >Did you show the rules? Sorry, not yet. But here they come. Two player X and Y, moving in turn, X to start. Passing is not allowed. A move consists of two parts: (i)rolling dice and (ii) pushing one own piece one square "forward" Each player has 6 stones in the beginning, with numbers 1, 2, ..., 6. The quadratic board has size 5x5. Player X starts with all his stones in the 6 squares of the upper left, player Y in the lower right. (Each player is free to select the arrangement of his stones on the six starting squares.) Example starting position: x1 x6 x3 -- -- x5 x2 -- -- -- x4 -- -- -- y2 -- -- -- y3 y1 -- -- y4 y6 y5 Feasible directions for X are one step to the south, to the east, and diagonally to the south-east. Feasible directions for Y are one step to the north, to the west, and diagonally to the north-west. A move may be to a free square or it may capture an opponent or it may capture an own piece. (Often it really helps to capture own stones!) The meaning of dice rolls: A player has to move with the stone that has the number he just rolled. When this stone is no longer on the board, he has to move with the next-larger number he still has or with the next-smaller number he still has. Example: X still has stones 1,2,5. Now he rolls a "4". So he is allowed to push either the 2 or the 5. (It does not matter that the 5 is nearer to the 4 than the 2!) End of game is possible in two ways: (i) When a player reaches the corner square of the opponent he has won. (ii) A player with zero stones remaining has lost. Please complain, when things are still unclear. Ingo Althofer.
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