Edaraz társasjáték

Angol leírás

Introduction:Edaraz (from Proto-Germanic: Edaraz, meaning "edge" or "enclosure") is a territorial game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the hexagons (cells) of a hexagonal board. The recommended board size is 9 cells per side, but boards of 7 or 11 are also valid. There is also a place outside the board called prison. Each player has a sufficient supply of stones of their own color.

Definitions:– A lifeline is an uninterrupted path of empty points in a straight line from a stone to an empty point on the edge of the board or to a friendly stone with lifelines. Stones can share their lifelines through multiple friendly stones without needing empty points between them.
– A territory is one or more empty points connected to each other. You own a territory if all the stones connected to it are of your color.

Turns:Black plays first, and then turns alternate. On your turn, perform one of the following actions:

– Place a stone of your color on an empty point where it has at least one lifeline, then move all dead enemy groups to prison. After this action, all friendly stones must have lifelines, and the board position must be different from the positions of the board at the end of all your previous turns.
– Remove an enemy stone from prison.

End of the game:– The player who performed the last action wins the game.
– A player has the option to "propose end" of the game, and the other player must either accept it or not. If accepted, points will be counted by adding the friendly territory and enemy prisoners, plus an extra half point to the player who made the last move.

To make the game fair, before starting, the first player places several black stones in prison, and then the second player chooses the sides. This balancing method is called komi pie. For handicap games, the weaker player takes black and opens by placing a number of black stones on the board proportional to the difference in skill between the players.

Notes:The prison mechanism was introduced by David Wolfe and Elwyn Berlekamp in their book Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point.

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