Diplomatic Go 🗡 The First Game

[Vsotvep]

Quoting this here so it won’t be missed:

@Vsotvep

I whipped together a basic editor for Multicolour Go, thought I might as well share it so others can use it to play around with.

Should be pretty self-explanatory, you can click on the board to place a stone, or change a stone to another colour, or remove a stone. Number keys 1-9 will switch between colours, 0 will switch to remove stones.

I will be keeping track of the pilot game on this page , which also shows the usernames next to the colours for convenience.

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Currently we can expect something like the following, if all players will play as they suggested:

[EDIT: updated the picture to display the right coordinates now]

Would everyone be happy with this? I can’t imagine @le_4TC likes this board position…

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@Haze_with_a_Z

I might use random.org to determine which ones to use and what order.

If you assume there is no information about what the other players do, random.org is a good way to give you a good chance to play one of your favourite moves.

However, people are saying what they will play, so you actually do have information about what the board state will likely become. I’d say it’s better to think of an optimal move considering what the board might look like.

Think about it like this: both you and Vagabond want to get a corner. If you don’t cooperate, you might end up blocking each other twice in a row, which means neither of you gets a corner. On the other hand, by cooperating, you can both get one of the corners, given that nobody else interferes.