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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:26:53 EST
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- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: non-Cartesian boards
- References: <1993Jan18.082804.26879@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <C15pKv.HDA@cs.vu.nl>
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- In 1975 I made a GO "board" that could be carried and played on while
- walking. It was a balsa wood cube, about 4 inches square, with very
- rounded edges, to roughly simulate a sphere. On each of the six faces
- was drawn a 7 X 7 grid, but all the lines were extended to connect with
- the adjoining faces. Hence every line went all the way around the sphere.
- This gave a total of 294 liberties, ALL of which have 4 adjoining liberties.
- (i.e., there are no corners). The same pattern could be drawn on a
- sphere, of course. The "stones" were thumbtacks, the long handled kind,
- in two colors. We carried the tacks in pouches and tossed the "board"
- back and forth as we walked. We also played it sitting in easy chairs,
- again not facing each other, but just tossing the cube back and forth.
- This all happened in Berkeley, CA. Mitchell Timin
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