Perhaps, but I would say that my point is that we are discussing two different things here. To me, the less interesting question is breaches of the written...
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Stefan Filonardi
jkljkl@...
May 1, 2011 8:32 am
Hello, ... I don't know exactly how the 18xx rules are created. But for instance in Bridge the only rulesets that matters is the english original. All other...
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brosiuse
May 1, 2011 11:49 am
... I agree with Chris, while at the same time recognizing that it is a variant of the hoary "open vs. closed" debate in Acquire. Open money and announcing...
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Erik Vos
evos237
May 1, 2011 12:09 pm
For widely played games like bridge and chess, world-wide organizations exist that (among a lot of other things) maintain official rule sets that are regularly...
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Lou Jerkich
jerkich
May 1, 2011 12:25 pm
... use chips almost exclusively regardless of the game (18xx or otherwise). Most everyone I have ever talked to prefers chips in all instances. Even poker...
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mpcoyne@...
justlak2
May 1, 2011 2:51 pm
My demand (OK, strong preference at least) for open money has less to do with fear of cheating than with speedier game play. I played at a GenCon or Origins...
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Bill Stoll
billstoll
May 1, 2011 3:51 pm
Hi Stefan, I concede your point - 1835 rules lawyering is best done by someone fluent in German, with a copy of the original rules. Unlike bridge, 1835's...
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Björn Westling
bwestling
May 1, 2011 7:57 pm
This is not exactly true, as bride also consist of a bidding round, and some bidding systems and/or conventions that are perfectly legal, say in Sweden, are...
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Stefan Filonardi
jkljkl@...
May 1, 2011 8:11 pm
... right I should not have used the word rules but Laws. ciao stefan...
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Lou Jerkich
jerkich
May 2, 2011 3:26 am
... The following site is preferred: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamecorner/1835hrv3.html The stargate.net site was my old site that unfortunately I didn't...
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geoffac1954
May 2, 2011 7:19 pm
... Ok so far - but doesn't this just introduce another ambiguity. A President runs for less and doesn't announce it . Let's say this isn't checked as...
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John David Galt
john_david_galt
May 2, 2011 7:22 pm
... I know of two where the omission was intentional. 1853 (v1) doesn't require optinal runs because if you're planning to lay a token, or tiles that require...
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John David Galt
john_david_galt
May 2, 2011 7:30 pm
... Bridge is a popular enough game worldwide (and has different forms) that there is an active committee that revises the Laws every few years. The last...
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Scott Petersen
scottredracecar
May 2, 2011 7:31 pm
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM, John David Galt < ... I always wondered what the purpose of company credits was. Is it primarily to prevent cheating? ...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 2, 2011 7:34 pm
Scott, I always thought it was to more directly control when the bank would or would not break. -Bruce ________________________________ From:...
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John A. Tamplin
john_a_tamplin
May 2, 2011 7:42 pm
... Since no charters were included, you need some way to make sure that company money isn't confused with personal money. It doesn't actually control when the...
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Gregory R. Payne
istilldontre...
May 2, 2011 9:08 pm
... There's also 1860 (both versions), which explicitly states that you don't have to run for the most, so that you can collect subsidies from halts. Greg...
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breno_k
May 3, 2011 2:10 am
It could be a turn-order thing, too, with the multiple jumps and all....
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starfury_42
May 3, 2011 4:26 am
My son has to do a report on artists...either painters or photographers. He was assigned someone he never heard of...and I remembered that there was a...
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David Hecht
dhecht05
May 3, 2011 4:34 am
O. Winston Link. He specialized in pics of the N&W, "America's Last Steam Railroad." He also pioneered some interesting techniques, including providing flash ...
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thomas wall hannaford...
twall1958
May 3, 2011 4:40 am
I don't know the artist's name, but you should find the photograph's here: http://www.railpictures.net/ ________________________________ From: starfury_42...
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JC Lawrence
clearclaw
May 3, 2011 7:38 am
... I suspect it is a design/presentation artifice to make the separation of company treasuries from player cash explicitly clear to players who were already...
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JC Lawrence
clearclaw
May 3, 2011 7:38 am
... I don't know about other groups, but it is fairly common here for a president to make, "Oh crap, that's an even better route than I saw!" statements a...
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
May 3, 2011 9:21 am
... (We're actually talking about 18Malta.) A route is defined in the usual way--a piece of track with at least two stations on it. The key "joke" here is...
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
May 3, 2011 9:32 am
... < what the game author said, and someone found a rule in the 2nd Ed English ... There were two German-language rules editions, describing slightly...
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
May 3, 2011 10:20 am
... I agree that forcing everyone to check routes is a time-consuming chore that should be avoided where possible. (There are many reasons I like 18xx, but ...
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
May 3, 2011 11:04 am
... You missed out a bit of the rules. In 1830, the president can, initially, declare any run he likes, and the rule you quote only comes into force if ...
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brophym
BrophyM@...
May 3, 2011 11:40 am
In the Stock Round, can you buy a share of a company, and then turn around and immediately sell that same share that you just bought...? Rule as written: ...
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Dutton, Richard
dutton_rick
May 3, 2011 12:01 pm
My only objection to Mr. Thomas's learned response is that a public announcement of undercounting (in games where it's legal) seems to remove a tactical...
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Ron
ronald_novicky
May 3, 2011 12:27 pm
You can download a (German) rulesset directly from the German publisher Hans im Glück at http://www.hans-im-glueck.de/1835/ I would assume that these are the...
