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February 2003

Brettspielwelt games

February 28, 2003

I just played some games in the Brettspielwelt. I’ve been looking for a game of Ra there for a while now and today it happened, I played a 3-player game. Unfortunately the user interface is on the worse end of the BSW scale. Important information (like the amount of Ra tiles drawn) is hidden on [...]

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Rest of the gaming weekend

February 28, 2003

The previous entry covers the games of Friday. This one tells the tale from Saturday to Sunday. It’s a long story, but hopefully of interest at least to someone. Last Saturday was a full day of gaming. I woke up at about ten am and started the morning working on some Go problems. Then, after [...]

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Games from last Friday

February 26, 2003

Last weekend I visited my good friend Tommy and we had a great weekend full of fun and games. I’m going to write session reports about the whole weekend, a day at a time because they’re going to be a bit longer — lots of new games, you see. I’ll start with Friday. I came [...]

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Sunda to Sahul arrived

February 18, 2003

I picked up the Sunda to Sahul from the post office the first thing today. I just opened the box and I must say I’m impressed! Neat little box (about the size of A4, perhaps 5 cm high) and talk about nice bits! Game consists mostly of about 100 or so jigsaw pieces, and they [...]

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Board game club meeting

February 17, 2003

Board game club met last Sunday and I got to play many interesting games, including few new games I hadn’t experienced before. My number one priority was testing Goldland which I have wanted to try for the last two times — I’ve always run out of time. This time that would happen, I thought, and [...]

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Game club meeting

February 17, 2003

I had a nice afternoon of games yesterday with the board game club. A detailed session report is coming later. I played Goldland (finally) and Mississippi Queen for the first time and replayed some favourites… I also seem to have forgotten to send in the top 10 list for February. Well, we’ll just skip February [...]

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Go!

February 13, 2003

I just played few quick games of Go on Kiseido Go Server. It was definitely fun, but also made quite clear I am no good in Go. I played two games against players of approximately my level and lost both (I also lost a lightning game to a much better players — no surprises there). [...]

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First BSW games this year

February 8, 2003

I played my first Brettspielwelt games this year. Those first games included two 2-player games of Carcassonne with the expansion. I won both games. Then, for the first time ever, I managed to get in a game of Tichu. I didn’t make any blatant mistakes and actually one or two neat plays. Unfortunately I had [...]

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Sunda to Sahul

February 5, 2003

A guy called Don Bone was looking for playtesters for his new game Sunda to Sahul on the Spielfrieks list. I got interested without even checking the web site — come on, he was offering me a free board game! Now I’ve actually studied the game a bit from the web site, browsed through the [...]

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Vom Kap bis Kairo

February 3, 2003

I played two games of Vom Kap bis Kairo last weekend. For the first time, I tried the variant recommended by Greg Alecnevikus. That is, when player builds a track and there’s no auction, the turn moves to left instead of staying on the same player. So, you can’t save money in auctions and then [...]

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