From the monthly archives:

January 2005

One Jump Ahead

January 17, 2005

I finished reading One Jump Ahead : Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers, which was rather interesting book. It’s written by Jonathan Schaeffer, who designed Chinook, the first computer program to win a human world championship. Chinook played Checkers, a traditional and intriguing game that hides in the shadow of Chess. The book is also about [...]

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Another translation — Mogul

January 17, 2005

Yet another rules translation, this time it’s Mogul, Michael Schacht’s clever little auction game (Mogul at Geek). I’m looking forward to trying it this weekend. It sure looks like a fun little game. The Finnish translation is a bit useless, because there aren’t probably many copies in Finland, it being such a small print run [...]

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Pulsipher and the changes in the hobby

January 14, 2005

I finally got around reading Lewis Pulsipher’s (designer of Britannia) article on changes in the boardgame hobby. It’s a good read and has some pretty good points, too. Many people who prefer complex games have moved to computer games is an obvious one in my opinion: I can’t see why I should waste time crunching [...]

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New translation: Die Sieben Siegel

January 11, 2005

A sure sign of me getting new card games: new translations. I wrote a Finnish translation of the rules of Dorra’s Die Sieben Siegel. It looks like a fun game and it’s fairly high on my list of games I haven’t tried yet but sure would love to. Also noted is the appearance of Spiel [...]

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Finnish Boardgame Society

January 6, 2005

Finnish Boardgame Society website is up and running. Right now it’s a bit light on information — it has all the basics (how to join, what are the immense benefits of joining) but nothing fancy, like information in English. It does have a message board, where we’ll hopefully have lots of interesting board game -related [...]

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The Games Journal

January 5, 2005

The first 2005 issue of The Games Journal is out. The best article is without a doubt Dave Shapiro’s review of Gang of Four.

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Games of 2004

January 1, 2005

Another year gone, another report of year’s activities. Once more, there’s probably more information than anyone wants to know, but it’s more for me anyway. Once again I played more than 100 different games — 113 to be precise. That’s less than last year, but then again, I played overall less games this year. Numbers [...]

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