(colour version)
(monochrome version)
| Do you know Go? | |
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| Yes | The one who makes the first capture wins. The game starts on a 10 by 10 board with a crosscut in the middle. No passing. |
| No | Try it as a soft introduction to Go or as a nice boardgame as itself. You can check the rules below. |
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(colour version) |
(monochrome version) |
| The players alternately place stones of their own colour to empty points on the board. Black is first. Once a stone is on the board, it is never moved or removed. The first player to surround some opponent stones wins. The surrounding is clarified below. | |
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Stones of the same colour that touch each other form worms. Top left
corner shows two black worms; one with three stones and the other with
just one. A worm is surrounded when it does not touch an empty point. The black string in the top right corner is surrounded by six white stones and the one in bottom right corner is surrounded by just two stones. |
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If black plays to the blue point, he makes a suicide and loses the
game. On the other hand, if he first plays to the red point and later
to the blue point, he wins. (even with his own stone surrounded!) Neither player wants to play in the bottom left corner, since the other player can win by playing to the other point. The white worm is therefore safe as long as there is room to play elsewhere on the board. |
| Version | Release date | Comments |
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| Jun 6, 2002 | Returned to v1.2 with the speedup. | |
| May 29, 2002 | Speedup in AI, visualisation of thinking. Instabile for unknown reason. (My debugger does not work and the error message blames blitter.c which I have no clue about) | |
| May 24, 2002 | Added levels 3 and 4, minor change in menu. | |
| May 5, 2002 | Colour version added, bugfix in AI. | Apr 26, 2002 | First release, monochrome, two playing levels. |