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Arimaa rule - Quentin Cohen-Solal - 11-01-2020
Hello,
There are 3 mistakes with the Arimaa rules.
First, Gold places all of its pieces, then Silver places all of its pieces (in the current version, Gold and Silver alternate the placement of their pieces).
Second, a piece can pull even if it ends its movement in one of the 4 trap squares (this is not the case in the current version: the moving piece is taken but we do not have the possibility of performing a pul after the movement).
Third, the end of the game is checked at the end of a player's turn (and not between the phases 1 to 4). Therefore, in particular, a player can move an opponent's rabbit on the opponent's objective line, without the opponent winning, if he moves the rabbit back before the end of the turn.
Source: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Arimaa/Playing_The_Game
"A piece may voluntarily step into a trap square, even if it is lost thereby. The second step of a pulling maneuver may be completed, even if the pulling piece is lost on the first step. For example, Silver to move could step the silver horse from f2 to f3, losing the horse, and still pull the gold rabbit from f1 to f2 as part of the horse's move.
If one side's move directly brings about a winning condition for the opponent, the opponent wins, except under these rare circumstances:
- If a move brings about goal or elimination for both sides, the one who made the move wins.
- Goal or elimination wins the game even if one's pieces are technically left immobilized. Immobilization is only checked at the start of a turn.
- If a rabbit is dislodged onto its goal line and then dislodged off within the same turn, as occurred on 83g of this game, the game continues."
Note: I did not check "the order of checking for win/lose conditions" (see http://arimaa.com/arimaa/learn/rulesIntro.html)
Quentin
RE: Arimaa rule - Eric Piette - 11-02-2020
Hi Quentin,
Ok. I will look all of that in the next days and come back to you.
For the moment I can just say:
1) yes. I will make that modif, no problem.
2) not sure about that one. I will have to check in our description too. I will tell you when I looked.
3) yes, I will make that modif, no problem.
If you can check the ending conditions that will be nice too :)
We really appreciate the bugs or missing rules detection done by our users.
That helps us a lot, so, again thank you for that.
Regards,
Eric
RE: Arimaa rule - Eric Piette - 11-09-2020
Hi Quentin,
Ok I fixed Arimaa according to the 3 problems you found. It will be released in the next version.
But you can find here the .lud in attachment.
Regards,
Eric