plycount

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noun

The total number of moves in a game, counting each player's move as 1.

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Meanings

nounplycount (plural plycounts)

plural plycounts

  1. board gamesThe total number of moves in a game, counting each player's move as 1.

    Take note that if the side to move first wins, the plycount must be an odd number, since that side makes the last move.

    2004. Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Ernst A. Heinz. Advances in Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges... Springer 2004, p. 216 http://books.google.com/books?id=b1tMzog4M-MC&pg=PA216&dq=plycount&sig=mT8CESvj8h9T-6Z45eQfcuItbQY

Origin

Compound of ply + count.

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