/// <summary>
/// Tries to move Pawn that belongs to CurrentPlayer from Band (if any).
/// </summary>
/// <returns>Whether we should skip player's turn (because he has pawns on band) or not.
protected bool MovePawnFromBand()
{
if (Band)
{
bool bKeepTrying = false;
bool bBandHasPawns = false;
bool bIsDiceAvailable = false;
do
{
bBandHasPawns = Band.HasPawns(CurrentPlayer);
bIsDiceAvailable = IsDiceAvailable();
bKeepTrying = bBandHasPawns && bIsDiceAvailable;
if (bKeepTrying)
{
// Since we're here, it means that there are our pawns on Band
// and dices still can be used for moves.
// Trying to find new moves that start from Band
PossibleMoves = new PossibleMoves(this, Band, Dices, true);
// If we found any moves, we can do first one.
if (PossibleMoves.HasAnyMoves())
{
// Doing first available move, we've found
PossibleMoves.DoFirstMove();
// bKeepTrying is already set to true,
// so we don't need to do with it anything else
// as we want to repeat whole process remove all
// our pawns from Band
}
else
{
// If we reached this place, it means that the we still
// have at least one pawn placed on the Band. Since we
// couldn't move it (had no possible moves) we have to skip
// our turn according to backgammon rules.
bKeepTrying = false;
}
}
}while (bKeepTrying);
bBandHasPawns = Band.HasPawns(CurrentPlayer);
bIsDiceAvailable = IsDiceAvailable();
if (bBandHasPawns || !bIsDiceAvailable)
{
return(true);
}
}
else
{
Logger.Error(this, "Couldn't move pawns from Band because reference to it is null.");
}
return(false);
}