[Game Setup] Parallel Fractional Go, Game 4

Hello, I would like to organise a fourth game of parallel fractional go!

Rules

Base Setup

Players are grouped into two teams: Team Black and Team White. Each team will receive points for the area of their Team Colour.

Parallel Moves

When all players have submitted a move, all stones are simultaneously placed on the board. If two or more players played the same move, a collision occurs (see Collision Handling).

Fractional Stones

Stones have multiple colours, and the chains of each colour are determined individually. As a result chains may overlap with each other.
Players place stones with two colours, one of them being the players Team Colour, and the second colour is shared with a player from the other team.

Collision Handling

When two or more players submit the same move, a single stone is placed at that position, with all colours of the colliding players.

Capture

Chains without liberties are removed as usual. When multiple chains simultaneously lose their last liberty, first all Old Chains are removed simultaneously, then all New Chains without liberties are removed.

  • New Chains are those including a stone placed this round.
  • Old Chains are those that don’t include a stone placed this round.

Note that removing Old Chains might free up liberties of New Chains, allowing them to avoid capture (like in normal go, a stone that captures a Ko).

Example 1

grafik → grafik

Example 2

grafik → grafik

Let’s play!

This variant is playable on https://www.govariants.com/ ! The site is free to use, to register you only need to choose a username and password.
When all players have placed a stone, captures are determined automatically.

We can play with any even number of people. About communication, I suggest that we keep all discussion in one public forum thread.
All other arrangements are up for debate, e.g. time control, board size etc. I would like to find a consensus that works for all who are interested to play :grin:

Alternative boards

There are multiple alternative boards available on the site, and we can now also play on one of those! For example:

Related References

Simultaneous Fractional Go Game 1
Game 2 forum thread
Game 3 forum thread
Game 3 on govariants
Collective development of a server for variants
Go variant: SAS Go
Online Parallel Multiplayer Go Prototype
Fractional Multicolour Go
Diplomatic Go

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Count me in, of course.

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May I join?

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Of course! The more the merrier :grin:

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I would like to join

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@Maharani @Feijoa @shinuito @Vsotvep @benjito @ArsenLapin1 @fuseki3

Would you like to play?
:slight_smile:

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I’ll join!

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Ooh, sure ! ^^ Thanks for the invitation ! ^^

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Sorry, I’m too busy at the moment…

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Me too, sorry. But thanks, and Id love to be invited again for the next round :slight_smile:

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Sure, I’ll join!

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i’m in!!

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Great, thank you for joining everybody! With that we have 8 players, so let’s start. Here’s a couple of polls regarding the board size / pattern:

What board size do you prefer?

  • 19x19
  • 13x13
  • 9x9
0 voters

What board do you want to play on?

  • Normal rectangular board
  • An alternative board
0 voters

Do these usually last about the same as a normal game / #players? Or are there enough collisions to make it last longer?

shape

If it ends up being a toss up, just want to remind that @Jon_Ko recently added “grid with holes” so we could do a mostly rectangular board :smiley:

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Parallel moves speed up the game significantly, but collisions, communication and refilling areas after captures slow it down.

Game 1 ended by resignation at round ~100, in endgame, game 2 at round ~50. Game 3 stopped at round ~40 due to inactivity.

Grids with holes might be very interesting. We could poke a hole in the center, take away the corners of the square or do a combination of both.

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I’ve drawn the seats at random:

Team Black: benjito, Feijoa, yebellz, fuseki3
Team White: Jon_Ko, Gooplet, A_Normal_Name, martin3141

Secondary colours are shared among the following pairs.

benjito - Jon_Ko
Feijoa - Gooplet
yebellz - A_Normal_Name
fuseki3 - martin3141

Please decide and agree on the choice of secondary colour that you want to play. Here are the currently possible 2-colour combinations:

grafik

PS: I’m okay with any secondary colour.
:slight_smile:

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@Jon_Ko any preferences? Green is speaking to me at the moment, but I’m good with anything :alien:

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Im good with any color as well

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I prefer cyan as my secondary color

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Green it is! :slightly_smiling_face:

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