From the monthly archives:

September 2003

Anathema

September 30, 2003

Check out Anathema, a Casino variant from APE Games. The card art is probably the best I’ve ever seen. But that’s no wonder, as it’s all done by Drew Tucker, who is one of the best artists I know. Check out his Magic card art, for example. There’s also a competition on the APE Games [...]

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Adam Spielt order

September 25, 2003

Our latest Adam Spielt order has been made. Next week I should get the following games: PitchCar — A must after the Lahti weekend. Simply too much fun to miss this one. I wasn’t interested in this before I tried, it’s unbelievable how fun such a simple game can be. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [...]

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Bringing my rank down

September 25, 2003

Played some Go today. I’m trying to bring my KGS rank down a bit. I’m just not 15 kyu. Today I lost a game (a bit over forty points — I lost 24 stones as captures!) to a 12 kyu, which dropped me down to 17 kyu. I guess I should sooner or later hit [...]

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Interesting Go resources

September 24, 2003

Here are some interesting Go resources: Kifu generator creates nice diagrams from SGF files. If you want to study your games off-line, this one’s for you. Mind Sports Zine has an interesting Go section which hasn’t been updated in a while, but still has lots of useful information. Go Learn, a series by Charles Matthews [...]

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Pictures from the Lahti weekend

September 24, 2003

I got some photos from the Lahti board game weekend. Enjoy!

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Finnish Game of the Year awards 2003

September 24, 2003

Finnish Game of the Year awards have been given. Finnish Toy Association has chosen following winners: Best children’s game is Kissa ja hiiret by Ravensburger. Best family game is Blokus and the best game for adults is Cranium. Interesting choices. I can’t say I care much about the results, though…

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Go equipment

September 23, 2003

I got a packet from Gaimport today. In it I found two fake leather Go boards (19 by 19 and 13 by 13), two plastic containers for stones and a cardboard box containing two bags of stones. Exactly what I ordered. I checked the stones, wiping them clean of some kind of oil they had. [...]

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Go action

September 22, 2003

I played some Go yesterday. I went to Kiseido Go Server to look for an opponent and found a Finnish 11k player. Loss was to be expected, with my higher than it should be ranking. Afterwards, he gave me some advice on how to improve my game, which is always nice. That also got me [...]

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Ta Yü with Johanna

September 21, 2003

Johanna wanted to play something Friday evening. That’s always ok with me, so we started to think about what to play. Since Johanna wanted to try something new, that ruled out Through the Desert, which was otherwise a strong contender. It became a choice between Ta Yü and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was perhaps a [...]

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Die Neuen Entdecker in Finnish

September 20, 2003

I went to Stockmann today and checked, as usual, the board games (they have the best selection in Tampere, at least of the department stores) and was quite surprised to see a Finnish edition of Die Neuen Entdecker. It was titled Uudet löytöretket (New Expeditions). Front cover said the game was designed by “world famous [...]

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