[Tutor] Dots-And-Boxes

Danny Yoo dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Sun, 2 Jun 2002 18:42:09 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> > P.S.:  There is one point, which is not completely clear to me:
> > Danny's algorithm always assigns only one square to the player who did
> > the last move, even if his draw completes two squares, So in the end
> > the sum of the points may be less than (w-1)*(h-1). Is this according
> > to the rules of the game?
> >
>
> no.  If your move boxes in any number of squares you get all of them.

Yikes, that's a bug in my program then!  I completely forgot about
double-cross moves.  I'll try to fix this tonight; thanks for reminding me
about this!