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Poll
Here’s a small poll for you! It has two purposes: first, I’m trying to get an idea of how many people read this blog. If you’re a regular reader, please vote. I know I have some readers, but if you haven’t commented on anything or made yourself known in some other way, voting here would…
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Bridge
While visiting the library, I studied other books than the Hanafuda already mentioned. Few of them were about Bridge, the king of the trick-taking games (and perhaps card games in general, as well). I have really no interest to play Bridge, as it seems to be a terribly deep and complex game. That’s fine, but…
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Hanafuda
I bumped into a mention of Hanafuda, the Japanese flower cards in Pagat. I didn’t react until Yesterday, when I saw a book about it in a local library. I borrowed it and now I’m definitely fascinated. Hanafuda cards are quite beautiful, small cards. They don’t have numbers like the western playing cards. Instead, the…
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Top 10 list 03/2003
Tichu (1) Sticheln (-) Union Pacific (-) Go (-) Taj Mahal (-) Mahjong (7) Goldland (-) Wildlife (-) Princes of Florence (3) Isis & Osiris (10)
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. Check it out, I especially recommend the player interaction article by Greg Aleknevicus.
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More games at BSW
I played few more games at the Brettspielwelt. First, I played two games of Web of Power — my first games this year! I lost first one (badly), then managed to win the other. I also tried Medina. The way they’ve done it is much better than most of the games there, the user interface…
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Go
Well — I played some Go on Kiseido, but not enough to get me a stable rating. I think I’m missing a win… Today’s scores were a resign victory against a weaker player who quit when I killed a largish group from him. Then I played a faster game against a stronger player and, as…
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Brettspielwelt games
I just played some games in the Brettspielwelt. I’ve been looking for a game of Ra there for a while now and today it happened, I played a 3-player game. Unfortunately the user interface is on the worse end of the BSW scale. Important information (like the amount of Ra tiles drawn) is hidden on…
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Rest of the gaming weekend
The previous entry covers the games of Friday. This one tells the tale from Saturday to Sunday. It’s a long story, but hopefully of interest at least to someone. Last Saturday was a full day of gaming. I woke up at about ten am and started the morning working on some Go problems. Then, after…
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Games from last Friday
Last weekend I visited my good friend Tommy and we had a great weekend full of fun and games. I’m going to write session reports about the whole weekend, a day at a time because they’re going to be a bit longer — lots of new games, you see. I’ll start with Friday. I came…