Pentalath

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Pentalath
Game data
author Cameron Browne
publishing company Nestorgames
Publishing year 2009
Art Strategy game
Teammates 2
Duration 15 minutes
Age from 8 years

Pentalath , originally called Ndengrod , is a strategic board game for two players.

Pentalath and Yavalath , both distributed by Nestorgames, are the first (and so far only) commercially successful games that were not developed directly by humans, but rather created by a computer program . This program called Ludi, developed by game inventor and computer scientist Cameron Browne, uses methods of genetic programming .

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The board is trapezoidal and consists of 70 hexagonal fields. The game can also be played on other boards, e.g. B. the hexagonal of Yavalath. The players take turns placing a stone of their respective color on an empty space. The object of the game is to form a straight line of five or more pieces of your own.

The hit rule of Go applies : stones of the same color form blocks, with stones on neighboring fields belonging to the same block, and if the last neighboring field (the last freedom) of a block is occupied by the opponent, the block is captured and his stones are removed from the board . As with Go, you must not bet in such a way that your own block is created without freedom and that no opposing stones are hit.

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