Re: DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-07-09 Thread David Nicol
I'm a big fan of maps with more than two dimensions on them, and would like to suggest that Agoran lands be at least in part locatable on an axis between gooey and prickly, in addition to the normal compass points. On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:54 PM Reuben Staley wrote: > The map is going to be

Re: DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-07-05 Thread Reuben Staley
The map is going to be repealed soon. Also if it wasn't, there's still only two dimensions on it. On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 14:52 David Nicol wrote: > You seem to have limited your board to two dimensions, which might be by > design instead of oversight. On the other hand, Agora Lands are probably >

Re: DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-07-05 Thread David Nicol
You seem to have limited your board to two dimensions, which might be by design instead of oversight. On the other hand, Agora Lands are probably 2D. see http://tipjar.com/games/CHESS/FullBoardStrongKnights.html which was of course inspired by FRC round 256, which involved playing chess in a

Re: DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-06-23 Thread ATMunn
On 6/23/2018 6:07 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: Any party to this contract MAY, by announcement, move a chess piece. I think in place of MAY you want "CAN, subject to the restrictions of this contract," Ah, I hadn't read rule 2152 carefully enough - I hadn't realised MAY and CAN were subtly

Re: DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-06-23 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On June 23, 2018 10:07 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > Ah, that's a misconception I hadn't realised I had - that switches are > necessarily tracked by the same person as their entities. Looking over this > that's actually the root cause of many of the other problems with this. I'll > read the

Re: DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-06-23 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Awesome, thanks for the feedback! On June 21, 2018 1:59 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Define who tracks these switches or are they untracked? (being the > recordkeepor for chess pieces doesn't mean recordkeepor for the switches). Ah, that's a misconception I hadn't realised I had - that switches are

Re: DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-06-21 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > PREAMBLE. This contract is to be interpreted as if it were capable of > defining switches. > If the Cartographor is a party to this contract, e is the recordkeepor > for chess pieces. Define who tracks these switches or are they untracked?

DIS: Draft contract for playing chess on the map

2018-06-21 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
I hadn't really paid much attention to contracts before the discussion last week, but I figured it would be fun to enter V.J. Rada's competition, if only for practice with writing legalistic documents. (I get the impression that subgames like this are probably better suited to actual rules, or