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- From: shoham@ll.mit.edu (Daniel Shoham)
- Subject: Re: Game Express!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.010951.15995@ll.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan25.142903.19811@fuug.fi>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 01:09:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.142903.19811@fuug.fi> an7840@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >
- >I have been an Observer for aproxx. 2 weeks and to be frank I am
- >disgusted with this game!!!!
- >
- >I believe that this experiment in superfast games is a failure.
-
- Don't know much about the game Express, but it seems to me that observers
- have no right to publicly critisize games. Whatever the actual rules are,
- I consider observership as a courtesy by players to those who want to study
- the art of diplomacy or hope to take provide a replacement. (Also, I think
- that an observer who, in the opinion of at least one player, abused his
- welcome should be booted off the game.)
-
- As for superfast games, the recent experiment "lightsp" (1 hour deadline)
- has proved quite a success. After taking about 1/2 a day to get started,
- and despite several NMRs (player consensus is that the game wasn't much
- changed by the NMRs), a high-caliber game was finished in 3 days.
- The game proved so interesting that a lively discussion is still going on
- on the "press to all" channel about the strategies employed.
-
- A lesson from this superfast game, is that players must be truely dedicated
- for the duration of the game.
-
-
- Dan Shoham shoham@ll.mit.edu
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