com.anji.tournament
Interface Game

All Known Implementing Classes:

GomokuGame, IteratedGame, RoshamboGame, TttGame

public interface Game

Game does not carry state of a specific contest between two players. Each call to play(Player, Player) is a specific contest, creating whatever game state is needs. Note: A game should be "fair" between the two players. Any game for which there is a significant advantage for moving first should play 2 games, one with each subject going first.

Author:

Philip Tucker

Method Summary

int	getMaxScore(ScoringWeights weights)
int	getMinScore(ScoringWeights weights)
GameResults	play(PlayerResults contestantResults, PlayerResults opponentResults)
java.lang.Class	requiredPlayerClass()

Method Detail

play

GameResults play(PlayerResults contestantResults,
                 PlayerResults opponentResults)

Parameters:

contestantResults -

opponentResults -

Returns:

GameResults for this game only; these totals are also added to each players results

requiredPlayerClass

java.lang.Class requiredPlayerClass()

Returns:

class of which all players must be subclass (or implementor, if interface); must be implementor of Player

getMaxScore

int getMaxScore(ScoringWeights weights)

Parameters:

weights -

Returns:

maximum possible score for a single game, given these scoring weights

getMinScore

int getMinScore(ScoringWeights weights)

Parameters:

weights -

Returns:

minimum possible score for a single game game, given these scoring weights