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reversi board

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reversi board

Name

reversi board - a game of reversi for you to play

Syntax

join game as {black|white} on <board name>
start new game on <board name>
move <position> on <board name>
pass on <board name>
view on <board name>
view possible on <board name>
resign from <board name>

Description

Reversi is a wonderful old game of tactics. The game is played by two players or you may compete against yourself. A single piece is placed onto the board by players at each turn. The object is to place a piece so that it sandwichs the pieces of your opponents colour between the ones you have already occupying the board. When your piece is placed onto the board such that it sandwich pieces of your opponents colour, the sandwiched pieces are caputured and change colour. If you have no valid moves, you must pass - you cannot pass if you have a valid move.

The object of the game is to have the most pieces on the board when there are no empty slots left to play on the board. If you completely wipe your opponent off the board, then you also win.

Examples

+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| 7 | X | O | 6 |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | O | O | 5 |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | O | O | 4 |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | 1 | 2 | 3 |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+

In this example, X could place a piece in any of 1, 4 or 6. At 2, 3 and 5 X does not sandwich any tiles. The only place that O could play a tile is 7.

If X played at 4 (for example) the resulting board would look like:

+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | X | O | |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | O | X | |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | O | O | X |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | | | |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+

If instead X placed at 1 then it would look like this:

+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | X | O | |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | X | O | |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | X | O | |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+
| | X | | |
+—-+—-+—-+—-+

See also

connect_four, lost_cities, battleslugs