A real draw by repetition occurred in a game on boardspace.net, which was definitely the natural outcome, not the result of collusion between the players. ...
... << A real draw by repetition occurred in a game on boardspace.net ... Do you have a transcript of the game? It'd be interesting to see how that came about....
Spring equinox marks the beginning of the second year of Zertz at BoardSpace.net. Thousands of games of Zertz have been played, including a couple of small...
I've now played about 70 games of Zertz + 11, and it is looking to me and my opponent that the second player seems to have an advantage. The player playing...
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... Your observation is correct. I agree that the second player has a slight advantage, but I usually look at that from a different perspective. IMHO the two...
I agree with the observation that the second player has an edge although I think the difference is more marked on the smaller board. I also echo Michael's ...
Sorry about that . . . Guess no one caught it until now because they just loaded the new ZRF on top of the old. Don't know what happened to that white ball. It...
The graphics have been upgraded, now featuring realistic balls and rings. There's a new board option "Zertz Extreme" where you can construct a starting board...
Hi, I just released a new version of Holtz (1.2.0) which now allows to play Zertz and Dvonn locally, over network, and against a simple AI. It can also load...
I for one would love to help test. Can you let us know where to download the latest? I mainly have access to Windows systems but can find a Linux one if ...
I played with the tournament rules. After trying several "standard" rules games I came to the conclusion that they are fundamentally less interesting because...
Hi Lyman, thank you very much for your suggestions. ... I just had the intention to implement the rules from the board game. My instructions explained it like...
In terms of terminology I really like the names Michael Reitz came up with: Basic Game (37 rings, 5+7+9 marbles) Standard Game (37 rings, 6+8+10 marbles) ...
Hi James, thank you very much for testing. ... Dvonn and Zertz are currently completely independent and thus can't take player settings from one game to the...
I do not know what they use on LittleGolem, but I helped implement the declustering rules on Richard's PBEM server. I can send along specifics after I look ...
hi Martin, thanks again for your hard work implementing these! ... To quote Stephen Taverner at BGG: "the first copies of the rings came with 37 rings, and the...
... Fame at last ;) Stephen Tavener, but you got my first name correct, so you're forgiven. ... There are two approaches that might produce a good AI. One...
Hello all. In the works is an association to promote abstract strategy games, like the Gipf series, and modern abstracts (while working with the classics)....
Sounds good. Consider me in. Although, I am taken aback by the fact that the site feel it necessary to explain who Iago is :-)! I am not what I am. Cheers, ...
Holtz 1.2.2 is released with binary packages for many RPM based Linux distributions. I encourage every Linux user to try out the binary package for his...
... It looks good. ... Alien will do a quick and dirty conversion of .rpm to .deb, if anyone on one of those distributions wants to try out the game. It works...
