Special Ways Of Winning

Under construction…. check again after 26^th November 1999

In the meantime let me list the 4 ways of winning with a brief description:

1. Normal - the loser cannot move since he is left only with singleton seeds (i.e. no hole with more than one seed)
2. Akakyala - the winner has captured seeds from the loser in two separate moves before the loser has even made his first capture of the game
3. Emitwe-Ebiri - Double headed knockout or 'cutting off at the head'. A capture is made of opponent's holes a&i and h&p (the 'heads' of the board)in the same move
4. Akawumbi - 'The Billion' the opponent's seeds are initially in every hole in the board (exceptionally rare, but this could happen in a real game - see if you can work out how!), and they are all captured in one move with the last holes captured being of a 'head' (i.e. a&i or h&p)