CORNERS RULES

THE WINNER

The winner is who first moved all his/her bones to opposite corner of the board.

THE BONEYARD

There are 18 bones in the set: 9 for each player. Your color is green.

THE PLAYERS

There are two players. Your hand (green bones) is displayed at the left bottom corner of the board. The other player bones are controlled by the computer.

BEGINNING THE GAME

The computer draws bones in their starting positions. To staring game click to "Start" button. Your move is first.

PLAYING A BONE

When a player's turn comes up, the player must firstly select a bone from his or her hand (by mouse click). Selected bone is a getting dark. Then you do your move by mouse click to one of the free position on the board. New position is chosen correctly if selected bone can move to this position from its old position by jumping over nearest bones (same as in checkers). Also correct is a one step move to a neighbouring position. The trace of computer's move is marked by little color circles (the bone's starting position is marked by big color circle).

ENDING THE SET

A set ends as soon as one player move all his/her bones to opposite corner of the board. To start next set just click to "Start" button.

STOPPING THE SET

To stop current set just click to "Stop" button. In this case you lose a set.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLECT

Three levels of AI exist: high, medium and low. Default level is medium. To select AI click to one of AI button before starting the new set.

SOUND

At any time click to "Sound" button to switch sound on or off.

SCORE

To compute your score using the original heuristic method depended of current AI level and final bones position. The winner have a positive score, loser negative.


 



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