Thread: declaring a winner for this game

after the the while loop is finished, i need to declare the player who took the last chip the winner, but i can't figure out how to do that.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <math.h>
using namespace std;
int main()

{ 
int num_chips, chips_taken,max_available, initial_number_of_chips;  
string player_1, player_2; 

cout << "\nRules: The game starts with a pile of chips. Each player may only take at\n"; 
cout << "most half of the chips. The player that gets the last chip wins. Good luck."
		 
	 << "\nPlayer 1 please enter your first name:"; 
cin >> player_1;
cout << "\nPlayer 2 please enter your first name:";
cin >> player_2;

cout <<"\nThe current player is " << player_1; 
cout <<"\n How many chips you would like to start with, " << player_1; 
cin >> initial_number_of_chips;
chips_taken=0;
num_chips=initial_number_of_chips-chips_taken;
max_available=num_chips/2;
while (num_chips>1)
{

	max_available=num_chips/2;
	if(num_chips%2!=0)
	{
	(max_available)+=1;
	}

	cout<< "\n"<<player_1<<", it is your turn. There are "<<num_chips<<" available.\n"; 
	cout<<"You may take up to "<<max_available<<". How many would you like to take?";
	cin>>chips_taken;
	while (chips_taken>(max_available) || chips_taken<1) 
	{
	cout<<"\nError: Invalid number of chips. Please try again,";
	cin>>chips_taken;
	}
	if (chips_taken <=num_chips/2 || chips_taken>=1)
	{
	num_chips=num_chips-chips_taken;
	max_available=num_chips/2;
	if(num_chips%2!=0)
	{
	max_available+=1;
	}
	
	cout<<"\n"<<player_2<<", it is your turn. There are "<<num_chips<<" remaining.\n"; 
	cout<<"You may take up to ";

	cout<<max_available<<". How many would you like to take?";
	cin>>chips_taken;
	}
	while (chips_taken>(max_available) || chips_taken<1) 
	{
	cout<<"\nError: Invalid number of chips. Please try again.";
	cin>>chips_taken;
	}
	
	if (chips_taken<=(num_chips)/2|| chips_taken>=1) 
	{
	num_chips=num_chips-chips_taken; 
	}
	


}
return 0;
}

any ideas? thanks for any help.

sorry about that. the game starts with a player selecting an initial number of chips to start with. he then selects how many he wants to take from that pile. then player two takes some, then player 1, and so on, until someone takes the last chip. the rules are that no player can take more than half the available amount and they must take at least 1. whoever grabs the last chip wins.

ok, that makes sense. i'll work on fixing that and see if i can make it work. thanks a lot for your help, i've been pulling my hair trying to think of something.

so... find some way to take away player_1 and player_2 and replace it with one variable?

Correct.
Like use an array, so player_1 and player_2 will become player[0] and player[1], for example.