This* sounded like captures and cleared lines would be scored at the end, but nor cleared, so I am confused.
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If it’s designed to be a go variant, then I think some kind of liberty capture mechanic should be important. Otherwise other go concepts, like area etc., also don’t make sense, since they’re only a consequence of the capture mechanic.
A mutator to try, I guess. I’m more interested in the Tetris aspects of this, so in my mind, either it works embracing the Tetris, or it doesn’t and it was worth checking out anyway
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It seems that the way that stones could block other sides from being played would give a flavor that is somewhat similar to the Pixel Go (with 2x2 blobs), mentioned above:
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it looks like exception, not like rule
what about not having such exception?
alternative 1:
you never allowed to create group with 0 liberties
to capture white group, black needs 1 more liberty
black can’t play here
black can play here
alternative 2:
its always allowed to create group with 0 liberties, but all groups with 0 liberties disappear simultaneously before next move
black can play here
moment later:
it also solving hypothetical problem: “what if there are already multiple 0 liberty groups on the board?”
just remove all of them
any possible position is not against rules with such variant
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