Author: Mikko

  • Go

    I played a game of Go on KGS. It was a very interesting game, which I — to my surprise — won. I even submitted to the Go Teaching Ladder to be reviewed. It’ll be interesting. So, now I’m 25k? in KGS. I still would love to get rid of the question mark… The sgf…

  • Wildlife, Union Pacific pictures

    New pictures available: Union Pacific and Wildlife. Enjoy!

  • FinDipCon

    A reminder for those in Finland next weekend: it’s FinDipCon time! This year the event is held in Helsinki and features the fifth Finnish Diplomacy championship, a Blood Bowl tournament and other minor tournaments — I’m going to participate in the Web of Power tournament. And of course, lots of other games will be played…

  • Puolenkuun pelit

    Finnish gamers might want to check out the Lahti-based game store Puolenkuun pelit. Their website has nice, bright colours and perhaps a bit annoying design, but they do have some good board games in stock (however, I don’t know about their level of service; I’d guess it’s decent, at least they seem to have some…

  • Academic game studies

    I participated in an interesting meeting last Tuesday. It was the first meeting of a informal study group of game studies, organised by few friendly staff members of the university’s Hypermedia Laboratory. The group will meet few times this Spring and then continue next Autumn, perhaps in a more formal fashion, too. The first meeting…

  • Board game club: Sunda to Sahul, Löwenherz, Union Pacific

    We had another pleasant meeting of the Board game club last Sunday. A typical crowd of about 15-20 people visited during the several hours of gaming. At the best we had three games played simultaneously. As expected, I played Sunda to Sahul — five games, actually. Four of those games were played in a row…

  • Board game club today

    Board game club meeting is today. I’m looking forward to play Union Pacific, Princes of Florence and Sunda to Sahul. We’ll see… Session report will appear next week.

  • More Sunda to Sahul, Bakari

    I’ve added some pictures of Sunda to Sahul and Bakari I took Friday. As usual, the captions are in Finnish but there aren’t even many.

  • Weekend games: Sunda to Sahul, Sticheln, Bakari

    I had a nice weekend, when it comes to games. First game I played Friday was an old favourite, Battle Line. It’s always a blast, and I actually managed to win half of the six games I played during the weekend. But that wasn’t the main attraction. I desperately wanted to play Sunda to Sahul.…

  • Bingo!

    Yes, I’ve grown old. Very old. I went to play Bingo last Saturday. My mother has started to play Bingo occasionally and she lured me with her and her partner, as we had an hour to waste before he had to leave for a trip. And guess what: it was actually fun! Of course, Bingo…