On May 23, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2013, Tanner Swett wrote:
>> Stones are a fixed asset whose recordkeepor is the Sensei. At
>> the beginning of each week, every active first-class player is
>> awarded 3 Stones.
>
> Hee hee. See R2022 (Sente and Gote) along with the version of R1997
> that defined the only land types as 'black' and 'white'.
Hm. I like the land metaphor; let me retheme the proposal around it (and make
some other cosmetic tweaks while I'm at it)
The Sensei is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
track of what's going on in Okinawa.
Stones are a fixed asset whose recordkeepor is the Sensei. At
the beginning of each week, every active first-class player is
awarded 3 Stones. If a person ever owns more than 10 airborne
Stones, they lose airborne Stones until they have only 10.
Okinawa is an entity consisting of a nine-by-nine grid of Plots
of Land. Every Plot has a Latitude and a Longitude, each
ranging from -4 (indicating extreme south or west) to 4
(indicating extreme north or east).
Position is a Stone switch, tracked by the Sensei, whose
possible values are "airborne" (default) and every Plot. It is
IMPOSSIBLE for two Stones to occupy the same Plot. The Sensei
SHALL report the Positions of non-airborne Stones by publishing
a map of Okinawa.
Airborne Stones with the same owner are fungible.
A person CAN, by announcement, place any Stone that e owns on
any unoccupied Plot.
A chain is an orthogonally connected set of Stones, all owned by
the same Alliance, such that there is no Stone owned by that
Alliance that is orthogonally adjacent to the set but not in the
set. A chain is in jeopardy if there are no unoccupied Plots
orthogonally adjacent to it. If a person owns a Stone that is
part of a chain that is in jeopardy, then e CANNOT place a Stone
on a Plot, the above notwithstanding. If a chain is in
jeopardy, then any person who owns a Stone in it CAN capture the
chain by announcement. If a chain has been in jeopardy
continuously for three days, anyone CAN capture it by
announcement. When a chain is captured, all Stones in it are
destroyed.
An alliance is a set of persons. Each person is in exactly one
alliance. By default, each person is in an alliance that
contains no other persons. A person CAN join an alliance With
the Support of all its existing members; this causes em to cease
to be a member of eir previous alliance. A person CAN leave eir
alliance by announcement; this causes em to become a member of a
new alliance containing no other persons. If an alliance is
ever empty, it ceases to exist. The Sensei's report includes
all alliances that have more than one member.
If a player has at least seven Stones in Okinawa, and no other
player has at least seven Stones in Okinawa, then that player
satisfies the Victory Condition of Shouri, and all Stones are
destroyed. When this happens, the Sensei SHOULD announce who
the winner was.
—マキャベリ
