Subject: Re: Thoughts for rules changes to improve pente. Making pente with no opening move restriction a fair game.Pente for points (not exactly like the original variant)
<>resolved by removing ALL affected pairs for both sides
OK, that sounds good I'll have to try the updated puzzle with that rule.
> if we can figure this out we can play pente evenly with no opening move restrictions!
That is true that you could assign points to the game so that players could receive a fair score in a game without opening restrictions, BUT it would be an uninteresting game! It would be too lopsided and too short of a game, I would rather see a longer battle.
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