Still another Pente variant...
Posted:
May 9, 2001, 9:24 AM
If people are looking for a variant that balances the game between the two players, while still keeping the perfect-information quality of Pente, how about this:
Double-Move Pente: (1) The first player places one stone in the center of the board; thereafter each player in turn places two stones.
This means that each player on every turn faces a board that has one more of his opponent's stones than of his own, so it would seem that it must eliminate the first-player advantage. The ability to play two stones at once might be undesirably disruptive of traditional Pente tactics, so players could also use:
(2) The two stones played in a player's turn cannot be on the same horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line.
Mark Thompson Chicago
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
