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- From: bret@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Bret Pettichord)
- Subject: Re: non-Cartesian boards
- In-Reply-To: GDH3@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 16:26:53 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:59:39 GMT
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- Mitchell Timin writes:
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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.
-
- So how did the games turn out? I would think that the games would be
- very uncertain, it being so difficult to surround territory with no
- edges.
-
- Also, what you describe sound like it had six "corners", each with three
- liberties. Wouldn't it be a tad easier to create eye space around these?
-
- Bret Pettichord
- bret@ileaf.com
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