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White and Black Placement
According to the input description it supposed to place black on top and white bottom initially, Am I right?
If no, there will be confusion in middle way game input which one is which one’s base, right for example in example 3 white was initially down there and this is actually end of the game, right ?
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Yes, it looks like near the end of the game. The camps will always be as described in the assignment text.
Updated 21 days ago by Daniel Link
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Anonymous 20 days ago
I’m sorry but it’s still not clear to me.. will black always be at the top and white always be at the bottom?
Pedram Safi 12 days ago Yes!
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Anonymous 12 days ago Contradicting statements in homework
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Color will always be organized in board as shown.
However in test input the color contradicts.
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Anonymous 12 days ago I’d recommend searching/reading existing posts in the time used to post a new question: @236
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Vijayantika 5 days ago How to identify our camp mid-game? Here is what we have in the assignment
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Here is an example input file sample. (Read below image for more text)
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1. To clarify: Does Figure 2 represent a board that is the near END of game play? Initially, I thought it was the beginning – but figure 1 says otherwise. Just making sure my understanding is correct. If so, Ignore the rest of the questions and have a good day. 🙂
2. Does Figure 1 imply the black camp will always be the top left corner (for single & game play)? If so, why does Figure 2 contradict this statement?
3. Even for single game play, all the examples given in the PDF are boards towards the beginning of game play – it’s easy to identify which is the black camp and which is the white camp. BUT, there may be inputs where all the white and black pieces are scattered across the board. In this case, how do we know which corner is the white camp and which is the black camp?
Bo Wang 5 days ago To answer Q1: Yes, it’s near the end of a game. Your understanding is correct.
Pedram Safi 5 days ago black always starts at the top left corner and white always bottom right corner. So your goal is to always move towards the opposite
corner to win the game. The state of the game does not impact this as long as we are told what color we are playing.
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Anonymous 5 days ago Configuration of board for Full Game
Will the initial configuration of the board be this for all the full games against the reference minimax agent BBBBB………..
BBBBB………..
BBBB…………
BBB………….
BB…………..
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…………..WW
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that is all Black Pawns in the upper left corner and all White Pawns in the bottom right corner.
Pedram Safi 5 days ago That is correct! This will be the configuration at the beginning of each game.
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Shreyash Annapureddy 5 days ago Then how come in the assignment it provides examples where the white and blacks are swapped? Bo Wang 5 days ago @236 @360
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