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Month: January 2005

  • One Jump Ahead

    This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.I finished reading One Jump Ahead : Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers, which was rather interesting book. It’s written by Jonathan Schaeffer, who designed Chinook, the first computer program to win a human…

  • Another translation — Mogul

    Yet another rules translation, this time it’s Mogul, Michael Schacht’s clever little auction game (Mogul at Geek). I’m looking forward to trying it this weekend. It sure looks like a fun little game. The Finnish translation is a bit useless, because there aren’t probably many copies in Finland, it being such a small print run…

  • Pulsipher and the changes in the hobby

    I finally got around reading Lewis Pulsipher’s (designer of Britannia) article on changes in the boardgame hobby. It’s a good read and has some pretty good points, too. Many people who prefer complex games have moved to computer games is an obvious one in my opinion: I can’t see why I should waste time crunching…

  • New translation: Die Sieben Siegel

    A sure sign of me getting new card games: new translations. I wrote a Finnish translation of the rules of Dorra’s Die Sieben Siegel. It looks like a fun game and it’s fairly high on my list of games I haven’t tried yet but sure would love to. Also noted is the appearance of Spiel…

  • Finnish Boardgame Society

    Finnish Boardgame Society website is up and running. Right now it’s a bit light on information — it has all the basics (how to join, what are the immense benefits of joining) but nothing fancy, like information in English. It does have a message board, where we’ll hopefully have lots of interesting board game -related…

  • The Games Journal

    The first 2005 issue of The Games Journal is out. The best article is without a doubt Dave Shapiro’s review of Gang of Four.

  • Games of 2004

    Another year gone, another report of year’s activities. Once more, there’s probably more information than anyone wants to know, but it’s more for me anyway. Once again I played more than 100 different games — 113 to be precise. That’s less than last year, but then again, I played overall less games this year. Numbers…