I've added Volcano to the games at Boardspace.net, including a novel variant played on a hex grid. http://boardspace.net/english/about_volcano.html If you...
... Dave, bear with me on this question: Is Volcano 2 player only on your site? I just wanted to confirm, because I am under the impression you only do two...
Announcing a new book for beginning go players: Beginning Go by Peter Shotwell and Susan Long Tuttle Publishing $14.95 159 pages Beginning Go is a clear and...
... Go's relationship to literature is that it has been written about. Go's relationship to history is that it has been played. Go has absolutely zero...
Hello, With all due respect, please take a look at www.usgo.org/bobhighlibrary and scroll down for some of my articles and those of others. In addition, go's...
... Nope. With all due respect I'm sure there are countless articles written by innumerable authors describing the influence of Go on society - all written by...
Dear Peter, ... Thanks for the book information. Best of luck with the sales. Do you know if it will be at Amazon's? ... Have you found, in your travels, any...
... Mark, in all due respect, I will disagree with you. Playing abstract strategy games have been known to improve cognitive skills. Study strategy, either...
Hey, anyone have a lead on this? I would like to get pieces of the Capablanca chess variety, but my search on the web has come up empty. Anyone have any...
... It may improve some cognitive skills and retard others. I doubt if playing games makes you smarter overall. ... Ok, so? Go being featured in a movie is a...
... How exactly does playing an abstract strategy game retard any cognitive skills? Maybe if you focuses excessively, you neglect to develop each others, but...
... Well partly that. There are only so many hours in a day. Every hour you spend playing Go, that's an hour you're not watching 90210. Plus, it starts to...
This is a philosophical piece for the most part meant to give thought to where things can head, and why. I believe the framework of chess can be addressed now...
This may seem trite, but I think one of the key features of whatever variant arises to unstick Chess is that it will be a "usual-equipment" variant. That way,...
... I actually believe the Different Armies approach is part of the answer. I believe the key is to being able to come up with the pieces to actually play. ...
It's true that some games, once solved, become unplayable, because a simple winning strategy is known. It is extremely unlikely that this applies to chess. If...
I'm confused by the apparrent concern that chess is going to be "solved". Chess is in no danger of being "solved". Maybe this is due to the recent publicity...
... "solved". ... recent ... single ... One aspect to this "solved" bit is that the lines of play get fully exposed and analyzed, leading to innovation...
This is a follow up post to my prior "Unsticking Chess" one. To the end, the purpose of the project is to come up with perhaps a bit of standardization in...
I would like to run this concept as part of the Chess of Tomorrow project. Someone in discussing the future of chess, brought up Calvinball. The posted a link...
... What Rich is trying to do is create a framework to organize some part of chess variants into a coherent package. His aim is marketing more than anything....
... The CV site is a great reference, and useful. But it is as about as much of a living and playable form of chess, as a chess glossary is for chess. What...
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Rich asked can you buy variant pieces commercially. Yep, have seen them on a website. He mentioned commecially available, I'd guess there are...
... I think Rich does have a concept here beyond making more Chess variants. He's just articulately challenged. Perhaps Joe should be nominated as the...
Abstract game sites* with Mark Steere games: Its Your Turn - Tanbo Gold Token - Dipole Vying Games - Cephalopod Your Turn My Turn - Dipole ig Game Center -...
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