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   7 <h1>Trap The Cap</h1>
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  10 <tr><td><a href="board.jpg"><img src="board-thumb.jpg"></a></td></tr>
  11 <tr><td>The board</a></td></tr>
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  14 <h2>Changes</h2>
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  18 <td>23 February 2009</td>
  19 <td>Added a new player robot and fixed the sample game file to a legal one.</tr>
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  22 <td>22 April 2008</td>
  23 <td>Updated <a
  24 href="robots/libttc.rb">library</a> again: fixed bugs to detect a winner, and also eliminate players that have no uncaptured pieces.</td>
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  28 <td>10 September 2007</td>
  29 <td>Updated <a
  30 href="robots/libttc.rb">library</a> again: <code>Game#possible_moves</code> now shows the legal moves as described below.</td>
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  34 <td>7 September 2007</td>
  35 <td>Updated <a
  36 href="robots/libttc.rb">library</a>: now prevents moves via base without captured pieces and prevents more than three pieces on a safe position.<br>
  37 Changed format for moves that end on a base</td>
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  40
  41 <p><em>Trap The Cap</em> is a simple board game of captuing (and
  42 recapturing) pieces.  You can <a href="trap-the-cap.pdf">read the
  43 rules</a> and look at the board to see how the game is played (rules
  44 and image both from <a
  45 href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1730#files">Board Game
  46 Geek</a>).</p>
  47
  48 <p>The challenge is to build a computer program that will play the
  49 game well.  The structure of the challenge is heavily based on the one
  50 for <a href="../pousse/index.html">Pousse</a>.  What needs to be fixed
  51 for the game is <a href="layout.html">how the various pieces and
  52 places on the board are identified</a> and <a
  53 href="interface.html">how your player will be called</a> (updated 22 April 2008).</p>
  54
  55 <p>There is a <a href="simple.html">simple interface</a> to a test for
  56 your programs, with two simple robots to play against.  </p>
  57
  58 <p>'Always clockwise simple' [<a href="robots/1/runme">source
  59 code</a>] always moves the lowest-valued piece clockwise around the
  60 rim of the board.  'Clockwise cloud' [<a href="robots/2/runme">source
  61 code</a>] always moves the least clockwise piece clockwise around the
  62 rim.  They should be pretty easy to beat.  Both robots are witten in
  63 <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/">Ruby</a> and use the <code><a
  64 href="robots/libttc.rb">libttc.rb</a></code> library (updated 10
  65 September 2007).  Feel free to base your own robots on this code. All
  66 this code is released under the <a href="">GNU General Public Licence
  67 v3</a>.</p>
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