Well, perhaps it could be stated a little more succinctly: "Maximise your own strengths and your opponent's weaknesses. Minimise your opponent's strengths and...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
May 8, 2002 7:33 pm
... How would you phrase the principle, then, Eric? Ron -- Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe@... & rwhe@... Center for Ludic Synergy, Seattle Cosmic...
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Eric Shultz
Swift_4
May 9, 2002 1:36 pm
I'm not entirely sure. It seems like it's phrased well enough, but won't be entirely effective against stronger players. I suppose you could complicate a...
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nocal2000
May 10, 2002 6:29 pm
I doubt that grand strategy statements are going to help any of us play a game better. I suggest that we pick some games which are well known, and compare ...
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Eric Shultz
Swift_4
May 10, 2002 8:01 pm
Not a bad point. I don't have a lot of games, but I did just recently get Carcasonne. The one strategy I mostly stick to is to try to get a farmer into an...
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nocal2000
May 10, 2002 9:30 pm
... In Carcasonne, you have a highly limited number of meeples. You are calculating potential points per meeple committed. It takes a variable and often...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
May 15, 2002 9:47 am
I agree that it is important to analyse individual games and compare them with one another, as Edward Shultz and Edge are now doing with Carcassonne and Tigris...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
May 15, 2002 10:31 am
A couple of days ago, I posted the following stratagem as part of a discussion of polyomino games and how to generalise strategy from them: "If you cannot...
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Eric Shultz
Swift_4
May 15, 2002 2:53 pm
I love Go, and I love Go proverbs. Coincidentally, this is one I've just started understanding and employing (Now that I get ahead once in a while.). I think...
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seadragon66
May 16, 2002 12:03 am
... I don't think this is always true. You should play at a speed that's comfortable. It's true that it's easier to make mistakes when you're playing fast,...
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seadragon66
May 16, 2002 12:20 am
... I think another factor here is that the strategic factors in Cosmic are extremely difficult to figure, because they change so much from game to game. They...
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Eric Shultz
Swift_4
May 18, 2002 12:21 am
I read this one as "If you seek small gains, you will incur big losses". Which is true in Go. Many times I've made small attacks or extensions which allow my...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Jun 4, 2002 1:39 am
... From: Doug Orleans <dougo@...> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:36:40 -0400 (EDT) To: moratics Moderator <moratics-owner@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: File...
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Doug Orleans
DougOrleans
Jun 4, 2002 2:51 am
... Well, in particular I was thinking of Gurgeh's little speech on pp.37-38 (in my HarperPrism paperback edition) about deterministic games: The very...
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DougOrleans
Jun 4, 2002 3:22 am
... A somewhat different application of the Go proverb is the Scrabble strategy of closing the board when you're winning, and opening up the board when you're...
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DougOrleans
Jun 4, 2002 3:28 am
... Perhaps that would be "transgenric" (across genres)? Or, well, just "generic"... --dougo@......
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Jun 23, 2002 8:26 pm
Please welcome Kisa Gryphon to the list. Kisa is a member of my gaming group Seattle Cosmic, and has recently developed an interest in expanding the way he...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Nov 7, 2002 7:18 am
Hi, all-- The Moratics list has been pretty dead lately, but we have a new listmember tonight who probably has some interesting things to say: Alex Rockwell....
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alexrockwell
Nov 8, 2002 1:33 am
Hi everyone, I am new to the list and hopefully will meet those of you in the Seattle cosmic gaming group this weekend. (Though it seems I met a couple of you...
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alexrockwell
Nov 8, 2002 1:34 am
Also: this list seems to have been dead for almost 5 months? Hopefully my last post will spark some life again...
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alexrockwell
Nov 8, 2002 2:17 am
... whatever they are, and minimize the effect of your weaknesses; to attack -- or make use of -- your opponent's weak points and avoid his strengths, and to...
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Carl de Visser
cdvisser@...
Nov 8, 2002 2:34 am
... [Steps 1 - 7] That's a pretty good guide, but it looks like it would be hard to put into practice quickly. I might try using these steps to see if its...
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alexrockwell
Nov 8, 2002 3:08 am
... put into practice quickly. ... naturally when trying to find good strategies in a game. I suspect it might be pretty close, although generally I want to...
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John Braley
tau@...
Nov 14, 2002 4:04 pm
http://memeticdrift.net/tau/aliencity/acsc.htm Let me know if you are interested in seeing my Alien City recording notation. -- John...
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John Braley
tau@...
Nov 14, 2002 6:49 pm
My apologies, folks. I thought I was sending this to only Ron. -- John Braley...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Mar 8, 2004 3:02 am
Hi all-- The list has been quiet lately. Are people still interested in the Moratics project? It strikes me that a mailing list might be the wrong medium for...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Mar 30, 2004 6:59 am
Hey all-- The front page of the Center for Ludic Synergy has been rewritten so as to be less freaky, more informative, and prettier. You can see it here: ...
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Chad Urso McDaniel
chadm
Apr 2, 2004 11:59 pm
Here's an assigment to help people get into the moratics mindset: Choose any two distincly different games you play over the next week and post to this list...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Apr 5, 2004 2:31 am
... OK, Chad, here goes, two games from Seattle Cosmic last night, [Starbase Jeff][] and [Ad Acta][]. In Starbase Jeff, "space station contractors"...
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rwhe
Apr 9, 2004 8:08 pm
Hi all-- I saw the need for a central clearinghouse of information about topics such as mental calculation and memory techniques, so I created the Mentat Wiki....
