Gamesman - Knight's Dance

Answer 5: You (the programmers) have control about your minimum board. You are writing get-initial-position which allows a modification of the initial position. You should allow the user to choose as small and degenerate a case as they wish. I.e., surround should be able to be played on a 2x1 board with both worm heads on both available slots.
Knights dance should be able to start on a 2x2 or 4x1 board will all the pieces there. Konane has no minimum size, and Northcott's game should work on a 1x2 board (no space to move anywhere). If you've been coding your game correctly, it should require NO change in code to handle these minimum games.

(2003-11-25 @ 2:15 PM) Question 2: We were wondering about the default board pieces and sizes. Can we
assume that our boards will start with at least two pieces, one from each player?

Answer 4: The default initial board configurations are given on the handout for each game.

Answer 1: Infinite rows by 26 columns is the biggest we'll ask you to handle (columns specified by a letter; rows by an arbitrarily large number)