I found this on Pierre-Nicolas Lapointe's site and was wondering if anyone had worked it out yet. (You need a monospaced type to read the board, if that's possible here.)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . o . . . . . . . . . . . . . x . . . . . . . . . . . x . x . o O . . . . . . . . . . o x x x . . . . . . . . . . . . o . x x . . . . . . . . . . . O o x o . . : . . . . . . o . o . o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . o o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . o o
Xs to move and win in three.
- Walt
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Re: Pente Problem
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Nov 21, 2000, 10:03 AM
walt, unless i am missing something, this is pretty easy.
first lay out a board for coordinates a through 0 on the bottom going left to right. 1 through 15 on left side going up.
pluggin in all of the pieces it would be like this
x has pieces on h3,g5,g6,h6,e7,f7,g7,c8,e8,f9 o has pieced on c4,e4,g4,f5,h5,e6,d7,g8,g10
here are the moves as i see it. x - i7 o - h7 x - f4 o - j8 x - e2 for win
the only problem i see with the board is that x already has 10 pieces and o has only 9. even though they have both taken 2 pair each. i do not think that this adds up, so in my eyes they should each have only 9 pieces or if we keep the board the same then it is o's turn to move as it sits now. does anyone else have the same view i do?
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The capital Os are Os that sit on a marked intersection (of a 15x15 board). So, both 0 and L3D3 are occupied, giving O 11 stones on the board and X 10 stones.
I didn't mean to cause any confusion, but I don't think that changes your solution anyway.
Incidently, I remember seeing Pente problems with strange numbers of stones on the board in one of Braunlich's books.
- Walt
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Re: Pente Problem
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Nov 21, 2000, 2:17 PM
Walt, thanks for clarifying the capital O's for me. You are right in that it does not change my play at all. I would still play it out the same. So where did you find this puzzle at anyway? Steve
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It's the only Pente problem I could find on the Web. This seems like a good forum for problems and annotated games, but I don't think I have enough experience to write them myself.
- Walt
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In each Pente problem, White (o in this case) moves first and your task is to find the one and only way for White to win in the stipulated number of moves, even against the most stubborn defense by Black (x).
In reference to an earlier observation, a Pente problem does not have to arise out of a possible game, so it does not have to have equal stones.
Mark Mammel's site has some of the Pente problems from the old newsletters.
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Re: Pente Problem
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Nov 22, 2000, 11:11 AM
That problem gets even harder when it does not line up! %^) Here's the coordinates of the stones for clarification: L2U5,R1U2,R4U4,R5U5 L4D5,L2D3,R3D5,R4D6 Enjoy, Scott
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Re: Pente Problem // new gomoku program
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Nov 22, 2000, 11:32 AM
Scott's problem is a little tougher! As he mentioned you can download other puzzles from the US Pente Assoc. on my website for use with my program. Once you have my Pente program, download puzzles.zip which contains about 20 puzzles and a text file with instructions.
New on my website is my Windows version of Gomoku / Renju (called NOESIS)
