[Setup] Parallel Fractional Go 6

Hello,
I would like to organise a game of Parallel Fractional Go!

This variant is playable for any number of players, and features stones with multiple colours.

Platform

https://www.govariants.com/

Rules

Teams & Colours

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.

Unlike in normal go, here chains can overlap with each other.

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 single stone is placed with all colours of the colliding 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.

The rules description on govariants is less specific than our setup here.

Communication

All communication about the game must be in one dedicated public thread here on the forum.

Please feel free to ask questions about the rules and setup.

Previous Games

I’m interested!

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Are the previous participants included by default?

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Everybody is welcome to join!

Do you want to play? @shinuito @Feijoa @PRHG @Sadaharu @ArsenLapin1 @JohnnieDarko ?

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I do, although I can’t say I’ve wrapped my head around it yet

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Yeah that’s why I asked :laughing:

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Sure, I’ll join!

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Yeah, I’ll play

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I’m in.

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Looks like we’re 7 people, but we need an even number. Is there one more person who wants to join? Otherwise I’ll sit this one out.

I cant let you sit out ;-;

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Thank you for joining!

Shall we decide on the board size per poll?

  • 9x9
  • 13x13
  • 19x19
0 voters
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Still trying to understand the rules so I’ll abstain from this poll and let the veteran players decide.

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We were still trying to figure out the rules in the middle of the last game :rofl:

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I’ve drawn the seats randomly and created a game.

Seat Player Colors
0 Feijoa Black Green
1 Sadaharu Black Cyan
2 Jon Ko Black Magenta
3 Tschej Black Brown
4 JohnnieDarko White Green
5 martin3141 White Cyan
6 garlicsoup White Magenta
7 PRHG White Brown

Please take your seat in the live game: Go Variants

I reused the color scheme from Game 4. But we could use any secondary colours (as long as seat 0 shares it with seat 4 and so on).

Once all seats are occupied, I’ll create the discussion thread shortly.
:slightly_smiling_face:

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