The Formalization and Design of the General Play-on-table Game System

Abstract

For most traditional board/card games, such as Chess, Chinese Chess, Go, Chinese Mahjong, Hearts, Bridge, etc., that people just sit to play around a table, share the same playing model. In this paper, we introduce and formalize the definition of this model. These games following the model are named as play-on-table (abbr. POT) games. In this paper, we propose a game system to allow players to play all the POT games. By “play”, we mean that we can simulate all POT game plays in this game system. We also implement such a game system on top of the CYC game server over Internet.