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Another lost game of Go + some escaping from Alcatraz
Another game of Go, another loss to Janne. This time the numbers were more to my favour, 62-75. It was quite an interesting game, actually — Janne started killing one of my groups right away and actually managed to do it — when he did it, the group was about 20 stones. However, I got…
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Die Macher game happens!
I was getting ready to face the truth: I wouldn’t play Die Macher this weekend. But no, I will! I sent a sms to my friend, who had been interested but said his weekends were busy. I checked the situation and he said he might be going home for the weekend, or might not. And…
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Second game of Go
We played another game of Go yesterday. This time the stones weren’t on my side: Janne beat me 76 to 51 (I was black, he gave me again 9 stones handicap). I managed to build a very nice and large territory in the middle of the board, but that was pretty much all I got.…
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Go game yesterday
Well, I did play a game of Go yesterday. We played on a 19×19 board and Janne gave me handicap of nine stones (he’s about 15k, I’m about 25k). It was an interesting and pretty close match, which I eventually won by 4 points. I had more separate batches of territory, but he had about…
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Die Macher game status
Oops, my Die Macher game player count looks bad. I currently have only one player; one who was coming maybe confirmed he can’t make it. I’ve started a bit more aggressive advertising, using every channel I know. Let’s hope I can get at least one more player, so we can play the game. On the…
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New features at game profiler
I got very good and constructive feedback from Iain Cheyne and have now started to implement his ideas to the Game Profiler. At the moment they are concentrated on the users’ side. It’s now possible to leave fields empty. As a default, the system gives results from the top 100 list only. If you want,…
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Article project
I’m planning to do an article, interviewing the members of the Finnish Game of the Year jury. I’ve already received their contact information, now I’m thinking about questions to ask. I’m hoping I’ll be able to send out the questions by e-mail today. Let’s see how it goes. It’d be interesting to know how they…
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Excellent Die Macher review
Don’t expect much links from me, this is not that kind of weblog. Still, I’ll occasionally bump into really good games-related content in the web and will mention it here as well. Dan Bosley has written a very good Die Macher review on the Terminal City Gamers web site (or read it from Boardgamegeek). It…
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Web of Power
For Finnish users, there’s a new review at my web site: Web of Power. I’ve played lots of this lately and as you might notice from my Top 10 list, I value the game very highly. It works nicely from any number of players from three to five (I like it best with four, then…
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Website update: Tough decisions in games
Second part in the series "what makes a good game" the tough decisions can be found at my web site. Unfortunately, it’s in Finnish, but here’s an English summary: The article is about what makes good games stand out. The issue I’m pointing at is the tough decisions you have to make. Average roll-and-move game…