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<title>Games of Soldiers - BILLIARDS</title>
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<h1 align="center"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><strong><font face="Arial Black">BILLIARDS</font></strong><!--mstheme--></font></h1>
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<p align="center"><b>Copyright (c) </b><strong><font size="3"> 2002 Walter Joris</font></strong></p>
<p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial">This game is played on a 4x3 board
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          <td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>TURN</b> - On each turn, each player
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                <td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><font size="3" face="Arial">Each stone moves in a L fashion,
              i.e., it slides (orthogonally or diagonally) over a straight line
              of empty cells and just before reaching an obstacle (board edge or
              another stone), it must make a 90º turn (to the left of to the
              right) and move at least one more cell, until it finds another
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          <td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><font size="3" face="Arial"><strong>GOAL</strong>  - Wins the player
          that first occupy the opponent initial cells with his own stones.</font>
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      <td valign="top" width="500"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><font face="Arial"><strong>An example</strong>
        <p><font size="3">Black's turn. He can win by make the following L path
        (thru cells [1], [2] and [3]).</font></p>
        <p><font size="3">If it was White's turn, he could move a2 to a1 since
        that would not be a L move (after the 90º turn, the stone must at least
        move one cell). He could try to prevent black's winning by moving
        a2-c2-c4. Then Black could move a3-c3-c2. White must move c4-c3-a3 (the
        other two white stones cannot move anymore), and Black wins with
        c2-b3-c4.&nbsp;</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Arial">This game is presented at <i>100 Strategic Games for Pen and Paper</i> by Walter
Joris.</font></p>
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