Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:35:13 12/12/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 22:29:13, Telmo Escobar wrote: > Concerning chess and go, I'd like to pose a slightly different question: > > What's the better game? > You'll claim mine is a silly question. I don't think so. Let us make some >practical experiment: > > Let us play a game. Like those contests where one catcher had to confront a >boxer, or the like. > That is, I play chess, you play go. Each has to obbey the relevant rules. You >place your men and they have to stay where you put them; I move my bishops and >rooks, can capture your men, etc. > Who's the likely winner? Also do not forget that your staunton pieces are bigger than 1 square of go, so you also kick away by default everything that's at the intersections in fact several at a time. Apart from that if you cought just one time during the game you also have won directly :) When i used my go board here to disproof correctness of some factorization algorithm i had this coughing problem a lot. For me go is a boring game. that's why i finally decided to not get a member of the go club+federation here. It's all the same pieces. Basically that's why i also play 10x10 international checkers very little :) All the same boring pieces! At the draughts championships blitz a few weeks ago we had a game Napoleon versus Tornado. After the game Frank Mesander (tornado) said: "a very exciting game". Whereas my comment was: "What a boring game!" I found it a very very boring game, but the draughts players found it very exciting. I still wonder why. It was just shuffling with some of the same men! > :) > > > > Come on, I even will give you odds. > > > :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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