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- From: kleber@husc11.harvard.edu (Gwydden)
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- Subject: Re: hnefatafl and tablut
- Message-ID: <kleber.725702553@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 08:02:33 GMT
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- Erik Boman writes:
-
- > The pieces labeled s are called the Swedes and the m's are called the
- > Muscovites. The S is the king and the central cell is called the konakis
- > where only the king is allowed to enter.
-
- OK, a question about hnefetafl and Tablut-- what prevents the swedes
- from making a shape like
- Ss
- ss
- which is completely invincible according
- to the rules as I've seen them? (Now how do you explain *that* in terms
- of a simulation of real combat??)
-
- --Michael Kleber I don't have an overactive imagination...
- kleber@husc.harvard.edu I have an underactive reality... --EG
-