Hello,
I’m looking to organise a fifth game of Simultaneous Fractional Go!
Please feel free to ask me questions about the rules and game setup in this thread.
Players are grouped into Team Black and Team White. Every player places stones with two colours, one being their team colour. The goal is to control more area than the opposing team.
The second colour is shared with a player of the other team.
Multicoloured Stones
Chains and liberties are determined for every colour individually. Stones are part of multiple distinct chains, one for each of its colours. Every chain needs liberties to avoid capture.
Note: Chains may overlap with chains of other colours.
Parallel Moves
All players play a move in every round. The moves are only revealed when all players have submitted.
Collision
If two or more players chose the same position, a stone is played with all colours of these players.
Capture Priority
Chains without liberties that don’t contain a stone placed this round are removed first. This may free liberties for chains that do contain a stone placed this round (similar to Ko situations).
Demo
The Demo Board can be used to experiment with these rules.
Communication
All communication of players about the game must be in one dedicated public thread here on the forum.
Fractional Go is a variant that was invented here on the forum, and we’ve played multiple games of it. Most notable features:
Multicolored stones - Stones have multiple colors, and all colors form chains of stones that need liberties to avoid capture (just like in normal go, but here chains can “overlap”).
Parallel moves - All players play one move every round. Only when all players have submitted their move, then all stones are placed on the board “simultaneously”.
On the website where we will play, there is a rules section where you can try it out: https://www.govariants.com/variants/fractional/rules ← (on mobile scroll down to “Demo”) click on one of the “seats” and then place a stone. The board shows the perspective of the selected seat / player.
The rules are very different. Quantum go uses the same 2-colored stones visual to indicate quantum moves though, so I can see why one may think it’s similar to Quantum go.
