From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-12T06:15:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11)

I'm up for this if I we can a get a couple day extension on the quiz.

T.

On Saturday 11 December 2004 02:12 pm, Hans Fugal wrote:
| It would be good to be able to play against eachother when this is all
| over, so I propose the following 'protocol'. It's not complicated and
| probably not ready for tournament tic-tac-toe ;-), but it should do nicely.
|
| 3 entities - a game server and two players. The game waits for players
| to connect. Upon connection the game sends an arbitrary hello line, then
| the character representing this player, and the board size:
|
|    Ruby Quiz Tic-Tac-Toe server version 1.0
|    X 3x3
|
| And the player responds with an arbitrary hello:
|
|    hello my name is Juan
|
| When two players have joined, the game sends the current state to both
| players:
|
|    ___ ___ ___
|
|
| Then the game sends a message to the current player:
|
|    move
|
| The player responds with an action:
|
|    1,1
|
| The game then sends the state, or "move" again if it was an invalid move:
|
|    ___ _X_ ___
|
| game to player 2:
|
|    move
|
| Player 2:
|
|    0,2
|
| game to both:
|
|    __O _X_ ___
|
| ad nauseum. When the game is over, the game sends to the winner and
| loser, respectively:
|
|    win
|    lose
|
| The game then disconnects.
|
| White space is ignored, except for newlines (each message is on one
| line). The game state is in row-major order.
|
| Attached is such a server, and you are welcome to play a running version
| at fugal.net:1276. If you notice bugs please let me know - it has been
| through some rudimentary testing but not exhaustive testing.

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