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SV Plays a Riotous Game of Chess

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Thayle said:
You should spoil individual choices and the rationale behind them for your team's eyes only. All the opponents should see is the simultaneous move your team makes.

Essentially, consider the spoilers as the "thought process" of the team. In a standard chess game, it would be one person thinking all this. In riot chess, it is an entire group. The need for secrecy is still there, it just manifsts differently.
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Okay, but since spawning is enacted at the same time for both teams, shouldn't the choice of where each player is spawning be revealed simultaneously? The fact that we're choosing at all implies that knowing what the other team is doing would influence our decision-making for spawns, so even though subsequent moves can be revealed as they're settled upon (as the other team can't react until the moves would be executed regardless) we should keep this particular phase in spoiler tags until everyone is ready, right?

Also, do you want moves to be made as votes or just informally written out? Should they be collated into a single post?
 
TimelessThing said:
Okay, but since spawning is enacted at the same time for both teams, shouldn't the choice of where each player is spawning be revealed simultaneously? The fact that we're choosing at all implies that knowing what the other team is doing would influence our decision-making for spawns, so even though subsequent moves can be revealed as they're settled upon (as the other team can't react until the moves would be executed regardless) we should keep this particular phase in spoiler tags until everyone is ready, right?
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Correct! It will be simultaneous. This phase should be kept spoiled until everyone's prepared.

To pull back the veil on author intent real quick - I'm trying to ascertain if the spoiler thing is as viable as I think. This is the biggest test I can give it in an environment that is not the game proper but is still important enough to require collaboration.

TimelessThing said:
Also, do you want moves to be made as votes or just informally written out? Should they be collated into a single post?
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I'll be accepting both formal and informal votes. Ideally, someone would collate them for me on each team, but I'm not above sifting through the votes myself.
 
Given that there are two players already near occupying one flank I will occupy G8 This I'm taking a back position in order to communicate that I want to play a tail for a pawn in H7 and/or F7. Since we can move two spaces forwards for our first move that will result in me being on G6 in after the first turn while other pawns will be on the spaces H5 and F5. This will result in a situation where if either of those two is captured I will be there to enact revenge for them.
 
WallFlower said:
Given that there are two players already near occupying one flank I will occupy G8 This I'm taking a back position in order to communicate that I want to play a tail for a pawn in H7 and/or F7. Since we can move two spaces forwards for our first move that will result in me being on G6 in after the first turn while other pawns will be on the spaces H5 and F5. This will result in a situation where if either of those two is captured I will be there to enact revenge for them.
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Wouldn't G7 be a better option since you can still move to G6 by going one space forward on the first turn, but can also move up to G5 if circumstances demand it? G8 also telegraphs what you'd be doing the following turn, since there'd be no way to maintain formation without moving to G5. If you start in G7, the White team won't be able to tell which pieces are going to move into the front rank and which will be covering them. Starting in G8 means that whoever is in A, C, and E will have to form the back rank to maximize the effectiveness of a staggered line, and this will be obvious to White.
 
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Right, so looking at the board and the ideas previously suggested I'm thinking it would be a good idea to continue the homebuilding and take C7
 
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