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stalemate?
« on: March 05, 2013, 02:47:57 pm »
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something funny happened just now - I resigned, so I don't have the log.

Anyway, after achieving two, three, and four, my situation has stagnated. Meanwhile, my opponent has Democracy, which puts three 8s in the scorepile. I do have leaves on my opponent, so I can Anatomy two 8s away per turn. Unfortunately, my opponent has red-factory-looking-thingies on me, so my opponent can just reproduce them with Machine Tools. If I don't attack my opponent's score pile every turn, my opponent will easily snowball to the win. On the other hand, my opponent has no cards in hand or real source of draw. If my opponent spends time drawing cards and thus lets me annihilate the 8s in the scorepile, my opponent can't get them back except through the slow process of democracying away cards. So my opponent is just dogmaing machine tools twice per turn, and I'm dogmaing anatomy right back. I decided I should resign, since I'm clearly going to lose if I stop, and probably going to lose if my opponent stops.
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Re: stalemate?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2013, 03:00:02 pm »
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It should probably be a draw, based on a komi rule.  Theory made a similar thread, shouldn't be hard to find.
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Re: stalemate?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2013, 06:54:41 pm »
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Yeah, there ought to be a stalemate rule, but I think it's such an uncommon situation.  Although obviously more common than in Dominion.
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Re: stalemate?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2013, 07:07:25 pm »
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I always mix up komi with that other word.  Ko?  The thing in Go with repeated identical positions.
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