Patent ID: 7713117

Claim:
A method of scoring a board configuration of a game comprising: under control of a computer configured with computer-executable instructions to implement the method of scoring the board configuration of the game, (i) selecting an empty board position corresponding to a legal move of a player whose move is next; (ii) executing a move at the selected board position according to the rules of the game; (iii) repeating the selecting and executing steps until no further legal moves remain for play and recording the resulting terminal board configuration; (iv) repeating steps (i), (ii) and (iii) of selecting, executing and repeating to obtain a plurality of terminal board configurations, n; (v) for each board position, calculating the proportion of n times that board position was associated with a given player in the n terminal board configurations; and selecting a player to be associated with that board position on the basis of a threshold applied to the calculated proportion; and (vi) presenting to one or more players of the game via a display controlled by the computer, information about the calculated proportions using marks on a graphical representation of a game board where the sizes of the marks represent the calculated proportions and the colors of the marks represent the selected players.