Re: Help on Stratego PBM

From: mrowles@minn.net (Mike Rowles)

Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <31EAD153.7C47@cce.cce.usyd.edu.au>, Tim Booth
<timbooth@cce.cce.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> Ummm... I can't finmd any evidence of Stratego being played PBM (at
least, from searches
> on PBeM pages etc)... isn't it a board game between 2 people?? I think
it may be a bit
> difficult to translate to PBeM play, actually... what do others reckon??
>
> Tim Booth

I've organized a Stratego Email league/ladder.

We might as well use algebraic chess-like notation. A sequence of moves might
look like this

Turn   Red             Result**        Blue            Result***
 1      e4-e5                           e7-e6
 2      e5(7)-e6*       e6(6)xe5        f7-f6
 3      f4-f5                           e5(6)-f5        e5xf5(7)
 4      g4-e4

*When you "strike" put the rank of the piece right after the position.
 **The Blue player types the result of Red strikes in this column.
 ***The Red player types the result of Blue strikes in this column.

I would suggest to save the game as a text file to email back and forth.
And using a graphics program to keep the game set up.

Blue
    a b c d e f g h i j
 10:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:10
  9:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:9
  8:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:8
  7:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:7
  6:_:_:   :_:_:   :_:_:6
  5:_:_:___:_:_:___:_:_:5
  4:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:4
  3:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:3
  2:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:2
  1:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:1
    a b c d e f g h i j
    Red

After some discusion of using a moderator it's been decided that players
will email their initial setup to themselves & forward it to their
opponent upon completion of their game.

Myself & another player have completed 124 moves of a game as of yesterday.

Mike
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References

Help on Stratego PBM
ac436@wilma.durham.org (Eric Peebles)
Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Help on Stratego PBM
Tim Booth <timbooth@cce.cce.usyd.edu.au>
Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000