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Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 24, 2005, 10:45 PM
it is possible to play 2vs2 - player 1 and player 2 both as white and player 3 and 4 both as black. P1 starts, than plays P3, than P2 makes second move for white, than P4 moves as black and so on. easy system and a lot of fun while playing but i have no idea how 3 players can play?!?
Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 25, 2005, 2:45 AM
I have played with both three and four players. In a non-team four person game(or three person game) each player has a different color. This means that you can capture multi-colored pairs in addition to capturing pairs in the standard way. Another difference is that you only need to get a four in a row to win. Only one person wins and as you might imagine the games tend to be a real mess, but it can be pretty enjoyable.
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Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 25, 2005, 3:32 AM
There is an interesting "flaw" that often occurs in multiplayer pente. I'll describe the problem with 3 players, A, B and C.
Suppose that player A, moving first, decides to take the initiative after a few moves and threatens to win. His threat must be blocked on ONE side. Next, player B, instead of responding to the threat by player A, makes a move which threatens a win of his own, which requires blocks on TWO sides to be stopped. Now player C, who cannot win with his current move may now "decide who wins" by choosing to either block A's threat or one of B's threats. Whoever he blocks, the other player will win on their next move.
This might not be a great example, but this situation can indeed occur in multiplayer games. Because of this, it cannot be played competitively, but would be fun to try it out just for fun!
Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 26, 2005, 4:56 AM
Haven't studied the multi-person games to the degree up has but agree with him that it takes the competitive edge away from better players. I've been playing 4 person games with my family and students using the new tube set I have. It's good fun in that the playing field is leveled considerably but the competitive edge for better players is taken away.
Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 27, 2005, 9:30 PM
I was thinking today that a four player team game might be possible on the existing system here. In team play the team members take turns playing so maybe the second players for each team could just tell the first players where to move using the chat function. Just a thought.
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Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 29, 2005, 4:19 AM
Lepew! I would like to add that the Mark Mammel program has the option to play with multiple computer opponents. one of my old favorites... I call it cut throat pente( after the pool game)...very fun and hard to predict...ups comment of a flaw ?thats the rules I always loved it.... I wish it could be found here for a long time ... I would really enjoy seeing a 3 way game between R3... up2ng and dweebo .. lol....del out....
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Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 29, 2005, 9:42 AM
Maybe we should try this a bit at the next over the board thing that you guys do. At least the bugs could be worked out and see how fun it is or is not, with much less work for dweebo.
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Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Oct 29, 2005, 11:35 AM
I sure would love to have a go.. I guess i should download mark mammel's sw and install it on my VPC, so i can try it out. Thanks for pointing that out Del!
Re: 3 or 4 players game?
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Nov 7, 2005, 7:50 PM
When I started playing pente with my co-workeras we played 3 and 4 player games quite a bit....its a hoot! Its definately true about the competition being pretty much impossible as the play often comes to a point of one player having to make a decision on which opponent's stones to capture/threaten, etc.....nonetheless I'm quite sure that many around here would get sucked into this vortex even further!! LOL
