Timeline for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
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| Aug 15, 2016 at 3:31 | comment | added | George V. Williams | @feersum, That's probably a good idea, as well as increasing the board size (the current size takes <1 second to solve). Another option is to consider misère play, where the last player to move loses. Misère play is in general harder, especially since this game appears to be "wild" which is an area of ongoing research. I really think this could be a great competition once the details are ironed out. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 2:51 | comment | added | feersum | @GeorgeV.Williams Good observation... so for a tournament only odd-sized boards should be considered. | |
| Aug 13, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | George V. Williams | This is an interesting game, but unfortunately the second player will always win since he can mirror whatever move the first player makes along the vertical axis of symmetry (e.g. if P1 moves the 2nd pawn up two, then P2 moves the 7th pawn up two). | |
| Feb 6, 2016 at 15:21 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | OK, so this is also a combinatoric game, because captures can split it into independent subgames. Some subgames, at least, are easy to analyse. Maybe worth asking on math.se whether anyone can find a full analysis. | |
| Feb 6, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | feersum | @PeterTaylor Yes. | |
| Feb 6, 2016 at 13:53 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | So it's only one set of pawns and they can capture each other? | |
| Feb 5, 2016 at 23:00 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | Oh you just made it up? I thought it was a thing. In that case, you probably don't need to be worried about it being solved but maybe about participants solving it ;) | |
| Feb 5, 2016 at 22:59 | comment | added | feersum | @MartinBüttner You're right, it's definitely too small as is. If I post it I'll need to make the board larger than 8x8. I don't know if the game has been previously suggested. | |
| Feb 5, 2016 at 22:30 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | The space of valid positions seems rather small. Is this not a solved game? | |
| Feb 5, 2016 at 14:56 | history | answered | feersum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |