Re: [pbmserv-dev] zertz bug?

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

The situation arose in Game 785.  There is only one
blank ring left on the whole board.  As I understand
it, the correct course of action is now to play a
marble to that position and, there being no empty
rings, to designate xx as the second half of the move
indicating that no removal is possible.  However I am
getting an error "cannot rmeove that ring".

To further complicate the scenario, this happens to be
a game in which the additional rule has kicked in that
marbles are being selected from our own personal
stocks (i.e., the pool is empty).  I am not sure
whether this contributes to the problem.

Below is an excerpt from my original email.  Please
let me know if I can be of any additional help.

Thanks,

Lyman

     A4 B5 C6 D7 E6 F5 G4     ** Zèrtz (tournament) **

                              
              .               
           .     .            [marbles]    white  
gray   black 
        .     .     .         
     .     .     .     .      reserve:       0       0
     0 
        .  __ .     .         
     .    /  \   .     .      player1:       3       1
     4 
        . \__/.  __ .         player2:       1       3
     5 
     .  __/W \__/G \   .      
     __/W \__/B \__/.         
    /G \__/. \__/G \   .      
    \__/G \   . \__/.         next player: [player2] 
       \__/.     .            next action: add a
marble, remove a tile 
              .               
                              
                       
     A1 B1 C1 D1 E1 F1 G1     

My understanding of the rules (and the server) is that
the correct move is: 

bc4,xx 

--- Douglas Zander <dzander@solaria.sol.net> wrote:
> can someone explain the zertz bug again.  sorry, but
> I erased the messages
> talking about it.   I understand that it occurs when
> there are no more
> tiles left to remove and the user specifically uses
> the double x's???  ('xx')
> Is that true?  Can you please explain exactly what
> happens?   I am looking
> at the code now and I think I see where it might get
> confused.
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> --
>  Douglas Zander
> 
> 
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