Re: [pbmserv] Re: how about this for a crazy idea for gamerz.net

["Whitney S. Clark" <im2_weird@yahoo.com>]

*My* idea is that such moves could also be conditional; e.g.

f6; e7; g3; a9; b4; g1; a6; f7; c2
(3) a5; f2

...which would, if the opponent made a different third move (i.e. a5 instead of?g1), then my response would be different, i.e. f2.

Right?

WSClark.
?~~~
[20070817]
Now who put that there? 



----- Original Message ----
> From: Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>
> To: pbmserv-users@gamerz.net
> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 9:09:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [pbmserv] Re: how about this for a crazy idea for gamerz.net
> 
> It would be helpful to have the simpler alternative of queuing moves 
> unconditionally provided they are all legal.? This situation happens fairly 
> frequently in card games.? Also there are games such as Zertz in which a long 
> string of responses are forced.
> 
> There may be an issue with conditional moving that the move syntax may have some 
> flexibility and you really want to consider two moves to be equivalent if they 
> leave the board in the same condition.
> 
> Am I missing something about the fact that the original suggestion was from a 
> backgammon server.? How do you guess what the next dice rolls will be?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lyman
> 
> PS May want to move thread to the developers' list.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Eric 
> To: pbmserv-users@gamerz.net
> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 6:48:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [pbmserv] Re: how about this for a crazy idea for gamerz.net
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/8/08, Bill Taylor wrote:
> 
> > We don't really need a guessing program; but a facility
> > whereby 
> > we can make conditional moves in advance, like...
> > 
> > pe4; if pe5 then nf3
> 
> 
> You're a genius for suggesting this, and a saint for programming it. I've 
> thought it through. The command will be called "guessmove". There will need to 
> be an abbreviation for me, so also make "gmove". You don't need any ifs or thens 
> in the command line. Separate each guessed move by a semicolon or period or some 
> symbol that doesn't otherwise get used but is easy to type. Then a player just 
> needs to alternate their moves with what they think their opponent will do.
> 
> pe4;pe5;nf3
> 
> Eric
> swift
> 
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