Re: Abelone - moving 4 marbles???

[Karl von Laudermann <karlvonl@rcn.com>]

On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 04:20  PM, unic wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my opponent just moved 4 marbles in our Abelone games... according to the
> rules of Abelone, both as I've learned them, and as they are given on the
> server's webpage ( http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/abalone.html ), you're
> only allowed to move up to 3 marbles at once.
>
> Yet, my opponent just moved 4 and pushed 3 of mine, one of them off the
> board... what does this give?  Have we been playing assuming different
> rules?  I've played and planned according to the rules as I know them, and
> as given on the web page.
>
> How do we resolve that?  Is this a known bug of the server?  Or even an
> intended, but undocumented feature?

I seem to recall reading a long time ago that the Abalone engine does not 
check to make sure you are moving 3 or fewer of your own marbles. So this 
is a known bug, that no one seems to be in a hurry to fix.

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