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IDC4O - Strategy Assignment
Strategy Assignment
The strategy assignment is to get you to understand goals, strategy, factors of influence, evaluation of a move for effectiveness, and prediction of retaliation. Keep answers short, but be specific. Assume that I have never played the game before.
Winning is not the primary goal. Winning is the result of reaching the primary goal. The primary goal is the action that allows you to win. What do you have to do?
Winning is not the primary goal. Winning is the result of reaching the primary goal. The primary goal is the action that allows you to win. What do you have to do?
Chess Example:
The Primary Goal:
- get into a position that allows you to attack the king (check) without leaving an alternative for your opponent to keep the king safe (checkmate). Rationale: there is no other way to win (without a clock) Secondary Goal: - protect your king - capture other pieces and protect your own Rationale: this will weaken the opponent and keep your position strong Tertiary Goal: - get pawn to the opposite side to get a queen - if you are losing badly, aim for a stalemate |
Factors:
Factors that affect your decisions may be things within your control (evaluation of the value of each move), or out of your control (dice), and may be affected by memory (location of objects), or mathematical probability (likelihood of dice rolling a specific number).
Factors that affect your decisions may be things within your control (evaluation of the value of each move), or out of your control (dice), and may be affected by memory (location of objects), or mathematical probability (likelihood of dice rolling a specific number).
- Value of a piece that can be captured
- Value of your own piece that can be captured as a response
- Clock may limit time to evaluate properly
- Memory allows you to visualize multiple moves ahead
- Knowledge of special moves or combinations (castle, en passante, etc)
Possible Moves:
Retaliation:
if the middle pawn moves forward, then the knight can take a pawn without loss
- pawn forward has a move rating of -1. It does not capture anything, and is in immediate danger of attack
- knight takes pawn - rating of 2. It captures a pawn, is not in danger of attack, and protects another pawn
- pawn forward has a rating of 1. It captures nothing, but puts a knight in danger.
Retaliation:
if the middle pawn moves forward, then the knight can take a pawn without loss
Strategy:
Move pawns in a V-formation - this will help protect each other (secondary goal)
Move pawns in a V-formation - this will help protect each other (secondary goal)
Example Evaluation of Primary Goals:
Level 4:
get into a position that allows you to attack the king (check) without leaving an alternative for your opponent to keep the king safe (checkmate). |
Level 3:
Put the king into checkmate |
Level 2:
Attack and surround the king |
Level 1:
Attack the king |