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- From: nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Timber Chess
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.190907.26083@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:09:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.173128.26498@Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec18.231746.24737@oz.plymouth.edu> <BzM46D.JH6@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
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- In article <BzM46D.JH6@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> wiltinkm@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (M. Wiltink.a73A.telnr-015-138378) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.231746.24737@oz.plymouth.edu> sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:
- >>mss2e@Virginia.EDU ("ardly know ") writes:
- >>>
- >>> All you need is a sheet of graph paper and two
- >>>pencils..[]... the first
- >>>person to get five in a row wins. It is a fantastic game.
- >>
- >>This is called Go-Moku in Japan...[] They
- >>also don't allow "three-threes" - placing a piece so that you get an
- >>unobstructed three-in-a-row in two directions at once..[]
- >> - Steffan O'Sullivan sos@oz.plymouth.edu
- >
- >Sorry to disagree, but I think this is the Go-Bang variant. In Go-Moku,
- >there is the additional rule that two stones of the same colour with a
- >stone of the other colour on both sides are removed from the board.
- >
- >Thus 'OXXO' > 'O O'.
-
- this is like Pente. Go-Moku has no capturing.
- >
- >BTW, I never heard about the 'three-three'-rule. It would make the games
- >we play a take a lot longer, I think (they could use that).
- >Maarten Wiltink
-
- the rule of the double-three is part of Go-Moku. it is a "defect" in my
- view, a necessary blemish on its purity. (the "ko" rule in Go is its
- "defect" and has had an accidental side effect of creating a very nice
- feature, the ko-fight. some "defects" in some games have absolutely no
- function otherwise, such as "en-passant" pawn capture - now how in- what
- was the circumstance that led to that rule?? i'd like to go back in time
- and see where they came up with that one...:-))
-
- the search for a game without defects continues.....
-
- - nate
-