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Connect6
Connect6 (; Pinyin: liùzǐqí; ;; ) introduced in 2003 by Professor I-Chen Wu at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is a two-player strategy game similar to Gomoku. Two players, Black and White, alternately place two stones of their own colour, black and white respectively, on empty intersections of a Go-like board, except that Black (the first player) places one stone only for the first move. The one who gets six or more stones in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) first wins the game. Rules The rules of Connect6 are very simple and similar to the traditional game of Gomoku: * Players and stones: There are two players. Black plays first, and White second. Each player plays with an appropriate color of stones, as in Go and Gomoku. * Game board: Connect6 is played on a square board made up of orthogonal lines, with each intersection capable of holding one stone. In theory, the game board can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11th Computer Olympiad
The Computer Olympiad is a multi-games event in which computer programs compete against each other. For many games, the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to claim the "world's best computer player" title. First contested in 1989, the majority of the games are board games but other games such as Contract bridge, bridge take place as well. In 2010, several puzzles were included in the competition. History Developed in the 1980s by David Levy (chess), David Levy, the first Computer Olympiad took place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London. The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser. This resulted in the games being suspended until 2000 when the Mind Sports Olympiad resurrected them. Recently, the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has adopted the Computer Olympiad and tries to organise the event on an annual basis. In the year 2024, parody websitMike Row Softadded an im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I-Chen Wu
I-Chen Wu () is a professor at Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University. He received his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU), M.S. in computer science from NTU, and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University, in 1982, 1984 and 1993, respectively. Wu invented a new game, named Connect6, a variation of the five-in-a-row game, and presented this game in the 11th Advances in Computer Games Conference (ACG'11) in 2005. The game-tree complexity of this game is quite high, close to Chinese Chess. Since presented in 2005, Connect6 has been a tournament item in Computer Olympiad. He wrote a program, named NCTU6, and won the gold in the tournament in 2006. Up to date, there have been at least four game websites supporting this game, at least 10 web forums for this game (in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Spanish and multi-lingual), hundreds of thousands games played over the Internet, several Josekis (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomoku
''Gomoku'', also called ''five in a row'', is an Abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go (game), Go pieces (black and white stones) on a 15×15 Go board while in the past a 19×19 board was standard. Because pieces are typically not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper-and-pencil game. The game is known in several countries under different names. Rules Players alternate turns placing a stone of their color on an empty intersection. Black plays first. The winner is the first player to form an unbroken line of five stones of their color horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. In some rules, this line must be exactly five stones long; six or more stones in a row does not count as a win and is called an overline. If the board is completely filled and no one has made a line of 5 stones, then the game ends in a draw. Origin Historical records indicate that the origins of gomoku can be traced back to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pente
Pente is an Abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel. A member of the M,n,k-game, m,n,k game family, Pente stands out for its Custodian capture, custodial capture mechanic, which allows players to "sandwich" pairs of stones and capture them by flanking them on either side. This changes the overall Tactic (method), tactical assessments players face when compared to pure placement m,n,k games such as Gomoku. Rules Pente is played on a 19x19 grid of intersections similar to a Go board. Players alternate placing stones of their color on empty intersections, with White always assuming the opening move. The goal of the game is to either align five or more stones of the same color in a row in any vertical, horizontal or diagonal direction or to make five captures. Stones are captured by custodial capture (flanking an adjacent pair of an opponent's stones directly on either side with your own stones). Captures consist o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game-tree Complexity
Combinatorial game theory measures game complexity in several ways: #State-space complexity (the number of legal game positions from the initial position) #Game tree size (total number of possible games) #Decision complexity (number of leaf nodes in the smallest decision tree for initial position) #Game-tree complexity (number of leaf nodes in the smallest full-width decision tree for initial position) #Computational complexity (asymptotic difficulty of a game as it grows arbitrarily large) These measures involve understanding the game positions, possible outcomes, and computational complexity of various game scenarios. Measures of game complexity State-space complexity The ''state-space complexity'' of a game is the number of legal game positions reachable from the initial position of the game. When this is too hard to calculate, an upper bound can often be computed by also counting (some) illegal positions (positions that can never arise in the course of a game). Game t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwanese Inventions
This is a list of inventions by people who were born in Taiwan (officially known as Republic of China) or citizens of Republic of China. Fashion Food, food techniques and cuisine ;Bubble tea :is a drink that contains flavored tea and tapioca pearls. It was invented in the early 1980s in Taiwan. Bubble tea vendors serve the beverage cold or hot inside a translucent plastic cup with an oversized straw wide enough for the tapioca bubbles to pass through. The drink has spread from Taiwan and is now popular across the world. ; General Tso's chicken :is a sweet deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. The recipe was invented by Taiwan-based Hunan cuisine chef Peng Chang-kuei. ;Instant noodles : were invented by Go Pek-hok, who later adopted the name Momofuku Ando when he immigrated from Taiwan to Japan. Ando created a method for deep-frying and drying noodles that could later be cooked using boiling water. He founded the Nissin Foods comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teeko
Teeko is an abstract strategy game invented by John Scarne in 1937 and rereleased in refined form in 1952 and again in the 1960s. Teeko was marketed by Scarne's company, John Scarne Games Inc.; its quirky name, he said, borrowed letters from the games Tic-tac-toe, Chess, Checkers, and Bingo (American version), Bingo. Standard Teeko Standard Teeko is also known as Teeko 44 Positions and is a game for two players. Equipment The Teeko board consists of twenty-five spaces arranged in a five-by-five grid. There are eight markers, four black and four red; in the final edition of the game (1964), the markers are marked with one to four spots similar to the standard pips on dice. One player, "Black" plays the black markers, and the other, "Red", plays the red. Gameplay One player conceals two pawns in their closed hands, one of each color. The other player selects one hand and plays the color that is revealed. # Black moves first and places one marker on any space on the board, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renju
''Renju'' () is a professional variant of the abstract strategy board game gomoku. It was named renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa (黒岩涙香) on December 6, 1899, in a Japanese newspaper ''Yorozu chouhou'' (萬朝報). The name "renju" means "connected pearls" in Japanese. The game is played with black and white stones on a 15×15 gridded go board. The rule of renju weakens the advantages for the first player (Black) in gomoku by adding special restrictions for Black. Rules Renju has its origins in gomoku and therefore shares most of its rules. There are two key differences between these games, however. First, renju has the rule of forbidden moves to limit Black's advantage, something gomoku does not have. Second, renju utilizes special opening rules to balance the starting positions of games. Forbidden moves There are certain moves that Black is not allowed to make: * Double three – Placing a stone on an intersection, which makes more than one ''three'' tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Taiwanese Inventions And Discoveries
This is a list of inventions by people who were born in Taiwan (officially known as Republic of China) or citizens of Republic of China. Fashion Food, food techniques and cuisine ;Bubble tea :is a drink that contains flavored tea and tapioca pearls. It was invented in the early 1980s in Taiwan. Bubble tea vendors serve the beverage cold or hot inside a translucent plastic cup with an oversized straw wide enough for the tapioca bubbles to pass through. The drink has spread from Taiwan and is now popular across the world. ; General Tso's chicken :is a sweet deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. The recipe was invented by Taiwan-based Hunan cuisine chef Peng Chang-kuei. ; Instant noodles : were invented by Go Pek-hok, who later adopted the name Momofuku Ando when he immigrated from Taiwan to Japan. Ando created a method for deep-frying and drying noodles that could later be cooked using boiling water. He founded the Nissin Foods com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games Played With Go Equipment
Many games can be played with Go equipment: a supply of white and black ''stones'' and a board with 19×19 intersections, other than Go and many more can be played with minor modification. Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a 19×19 Go board include: * Breakthrough, which can be played on just about any board shape one wishes * Gomoku, ninuki-renju and its close relative pente * Connect6, similar to naughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe), but requires connecting six in a row, and with two stones per move * Gonnect * Capture go * Alea evangelii Games that can be played without modification on the intersections of a Go board reduced in size (perhaps by masking the unwanted sections with paper or tape) include: * Alak, a Go-like game restricted to a single spatial dimension (1×19) * Five-field kono (5x5) * Renju (15×15) * Philosopher's football (15×19) * Cinc camins * Some games of gonu Games that can be played without modification on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Complexity
Combinatorial game theory measures game complexity in several ways: #State-space complexity (the number of legal game positions from the initial position) #Game tree size (total number of possible games) #Decision complexity (number of leaf nodes in the smallest decision tree for initial position) #Game-tree complexity (number of leaf nodes in the smallest full-width decision tree for initial position) #Computational complexity (asymptotic difficulty of a game as it grows arbitrarily large) These measures involve understanding the game positions, possible outcomes, and Computational complexity theory, computational complexity of various game scenarios. Measures of game complexity State-space complexity The ''state-space complexity'' of a game is the number of legal game positions reachable from the initial position of the game. When this is too hard to calculate, an upper bound can often be computed by also counting (some) illegal positions (positions that can never arise i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
