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Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, Mar 29, 2005 04:03 PM UTC:

<blockquote> The LL can't capture x2 by leaping to x0 because it could have captured by leaping to x1. The LL can't capture x2 by leaping to x1 because it could have captured by leaping to x0. </blockquote> Actually, the second statement is not true by what I wrote before: <blockquote> The only way you can end up on or pass over a particular edge square is to make a capture that would otherwise be impossible without landing on or passing over that particular edge square. </blockquote> Since the passing over clause would prevent it from being true. However. I've been thinking about this some more. What I wrote above is consistent with my original intentions for edge squares in Rococo -- they are there only to allow capturing moves that would otherwise be impossible, and then only the least possible extent. However, that's not what I actually wrote when I wrote down the rules, so I can see why the rules would be intrepreted to allow captures by LL and W (and sometimes C) that start on edge squares to choose among multiple edge squares for their landing square. What I am wondering now is how much difference does it make (it certainly makes some), and which yields better play? Comments?