WOW i have never seen that happen
Bug? Last player doesn't get +20 after consecutive resignations
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Something similar happened to me, but idk how it works. I was Yellow, and Blue had just resigned because he was going to be mated in 1 move. I had a superior army, but I didn't capture the Blue King figuring I would get the points at the end of the game, but green resigned before I got to capture his or blue's king. I was the last one standing, but I didn't get the +20 from blue's or green's king and didn't get the points, so I ended up in 2nd when I should've gotten the 40 points.
Oct 1, 2017
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Yeah, sounds like you suffered the same issue as Red from my game. Although it could be argued that you should have gotten only 20 points at the end, not 40. According to the rules, you get 20 points for any of the following:
- checkmating someone
- stalemating someone
- being stalemated
- capturing the king of someone who resigned or timed out
- being the last player remaining
Since you didn’t checkmate or capture the king of either blue or green in your game, I think you should have gotten just 20 points for being the last player remaining.
Although, if you read the rules carefully, it says “If there are only two players remaining [when a player resigns or times out], the remaining player will be given +20 points.” Depending on how you define “remaining”, in each of our games, there were technically *three* players remaining at the end, so the conditions for awarding +20 points for being the last player standing would not hold true. It is quite bizarre for the rules to be this way, however, and it feels more like an oversight of this rare edge case rather than an intentional choice on the part of the devs. Hopefully they will change it to give 20 points for being the last player who has not resigned, timed out, or been checkmated.
TL;DR: When two players resign immediately after each other, leaving one player left, the remaining player doesn't seem to get the +20 point bonus for being the last player standing
I neglected to take a screenshot of this, but here's what happened:
I was playing Green. Blue (across from me) resigned early with 0 points. Gold (to my right) grabbed Blue's king and ended up with a pretty big lead. I ended up in a vicious battle against Gold, while Red played defensively. Eventually, both Gold and I were pretty depleted in material. Gold was still well ahead of both myself and Red on points, but basically had only king and pawns left, and so resigned, with 53 points total. At this point I had 32 points, while Red had 24. However, I had only a couple minor pieces left, to Red's more or less full army, not to mention that Red was one move away from capturing Gold's king. Given that I would surely lose to Red 1-on-1, and had little hope of capturing >20 points of material to pass Gold's score, I decided to resign immediately after Gold's resignation. To my great surprise, I ended up in second place in the game, with the final scores at Gold: 53, Green (me): 32, Red: 24, Blue: 0. I was very surprised that Red didn't get +20 for being the last player standing. I'm guessing this was because both Gold and I had colored kings on the board? In any case, this was pretty unfair to Red, since s/he should have finished in 2nd place with 44 points for being the last player standing.