Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this novel chess-like strat...
by doubleplus on Thursday January 24, 2008 @06:43PM
(#103844)
my 2 cents on the strategy tip:
I'd turtle... Don't increase any of the 1's, move everything up one rank, then bounce pieces back and forth to the first rank, keeping each piece within 1 of at least two other pieces. I might have to have a couple 2's on the edges. That, or I'd try to restructure to a 3x5(+1) rather than a 2x8. I'd eventually have to increase a few numbers and break the shell a little bit, but by then my opponent will have far fewer 1's and a much more unstable structure from his attacks on me.
Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this novel chess-like strat...
by curi on Friday January 25, 2008 @05:05AM
(#104037)
doing that would lose. your opponent would make a bunch of high numbered pieces, and aim them all at the same place. he could attack that place with more than you defend it with.
I'd turtle... Don't increase any of the 1's, move everything up one rank, then bounce pieces back and forth to the first rank, keeping each piece within 1 of at least two other pieces. I might have to have a couple 2's on the edges. That, or I'd try to restructure to a 3x5(+1) rather than a 2x8. I'd eventually have to increase a few numbers and break the shell a little bit, but by then my opponent will have far fewer 1's and a much more unstable structure from his attacks on me.