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Re: tic-tac-toe - Clearing the board
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Fri, 4 Nov 2005 21:18:37 GMT
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For now, I think I'm falling onto the side of "no bonus".
Mostly, I want this to be a tic-tac-toe challenge. I'm assuming that
if we get a dozen entries for example, then there will be a broad
enough range of skill levels that the bonus won't really be needed.
Otherwise, I like the setup for scoring that Steve suggested. I'm
assuming that not everyone is going to be good enough to tie every
game, and there should be plenty of building diversity to let speed
be the deciding factor if simply winning games is not.
Also, bonus or not, if only a few people can clear the board, then
the whole idea doesn't do much, in my opinion. Although one robot
picking up it's own pieces would be cool, if the other robot can't,
then there still has to be human interference to reset the games.
Besides, this would be a competition, not a display where the robots
would have to be self-resetting.
-Kerby
On Nov 4, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> On Fri, November 4, 2005 11:23 am, John Brost wrote:
> > I'm really on the fence. I just think it may limit either the
> > number of
> > entrants, or the number of competitive entrants. On competition
> > day I'd like to
> > see many (a dozen?) competitive robots, not 3 or 4 that are head
> > and shoulders
> > above the rest because they can clear the board and get the bonus.
> >
> > I may build something to clear the board either way, because I
> > need to learn
> > about making RCXs communicate with each other anyway and this
> > seems like as good
> > of a time as any.
>
> This is kind of tough. My initial thought was to "tip the scale"
> towards a robot
> that can not only play, but also clear the board.
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> However, I doubt anyone will be able to build a robot, then go back
> and add-on the
> "Clear-the-board" feature. It will have to be designed in from the
> start. And, I
> doubt a single robot that can both play and clear the board can
> play as fast as a
> play-only robot.
>
> So, in order for a board-clearing robot to win, the bonus must be
> large.
>
> hmm.
>
> Steve
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