From the monthly archives:

April 2003

FinDipCon V: Sunday

April 29, 2003

Sunday came after another badly-slept night. This time I was able to sleep an about hour longer than last night. I went to eat breakfast at McDonalds, as that was the only thing that’s open at 9 am Sunday morning. This is not a food blog (I had one, but it’s a bit dead right [...]

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FinDipCon V: Saturday

April 29, 2003

After about six hours of mediocre sleep and an hours walk in early morning Helsinki before the doors opened, the Saturday games started. After some quick two-players (Lost Cities and Flowerpower), we played the New England Phil had bought Friday. I studied the rules quickly and teached the others. It took a while to digest [...]

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FinDipCon V: Friday

April 29, 2003

I’m back from FinDipCon! It was a splendid weekend of games, even though I’m getting a bit tired of con environment. I guess I just appreciate good food and good sleep too much… Eating too little and randomly and not sleeping well (I slept a grand total of about 12 hours of mediocre sleep during [...]

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New games!

April 29, 2003

My collection grew by two games today, when I picked up Mare Nostrum and Acquire from the post office. Both were donated by Puolenkuun pelit as a payment for using my board game articles at their web site. Thanks to them! Mare Nostrum looks quite cool, I just haven’t been able to try it out [...]

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Leaving to FinDipCon

April 25, 2003

I’m off to FinDipCon this afternoon. I’ll try to write something as soon as I can next week. I’ll also be taking my camera with me, so pictures can be expected. What I’m looking for? Games of Wildlife, Taj Mahal, Die Macher, Svea Rike… We’ll see, it should be fun no matter what I end [...]

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Go

April 23, 2003

I played a game of Go on KGS. It was a very interesting game, which I — to my surprise — won. I even submitted to the Go Teaching Ladder to be reviewed. It’ll be interesting. So, now I’m 25k? in KGS. I still would love to get rid of the question mark… The sgf [...]

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Wildlife, Union Pacific pictures

April 22, 2003

New pictures available: Union Pacific and Wildlife. Enjoy!

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FinDipCon

April 21, 2003

A reminder for those in Finland next weekend: it’s FinDipCon time! This year the event is held in Helsinki and features the fifth Finnish Diplomacy championship, a Blood Bowl tournament and other minor tournaments — I’m going to participate in the Web of Power tournament. And of course, lots of other games will be played [...]

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Puolenkuun pelit

April 20, 2003

Finnish gamers might want to check out the Lahti-based game store Puolenkuun pelit. Their website has nice, bright colours and perhaps a bit annoying design, but they do have some good board games in stock (however, I don’t know about their level of service; I’d guess it’s decent, at least they seem to have some [...]

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Academic game studies

April 18, 2003

I participated in an interesting meeting last Tuesday. It was the first meeting of a informal study group of game studies, organised by few friendly staff members of the university’s Hypermedia Laboratory. The group will meet few times this Spring and then continue next Autumn, perhaps in a more formal fashion, too. The first meeting [...]

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