Is anyone going to the dutch championship in Alkmaar tomorrow ?
(It's my hometown, but my gf is celebrating her birthday so i cant go have a look :( (or particpate ;)))

i am not sure if only dutch people are allowed to participate though

i just got back from my holiday so i havent had time yet to look at the teams for the current team tournaments .. are there any (strong) teams which could use 1 more player ? :)

shmoula: lol :) *comfort* :)
i couldnt find out how to get to the wipeout on that site .. i selected it in the list, but how do i see the game ?
(the play button underneath the board didnt do much :))

i didnt try long though as i am at work ;)

shmoula: nice!

another nice one would be a game with as few as possible pieces on the board, but all in 1 color already and the game being finished :)

John Baker: not even in a 10x10 ? ;)

Rose: well done! i tried it a few times as well .. but never succeeded .. either i missed one of my opponents pieces .. or the board didnt fill up completely

John Baker: sorry for the slow speed ... completely my fault .. i will see if i can speed it up a bit .. i am finishing some backgammon games lately .. so i should have some more time :)

(plus: as john limits my choices i will move faster as well :))

i am always in the dark in the earlier stage of the 8x8 games ... the real action is too far away yet for me to know if what i am doing now will be good or bad :)

John Baker: *nod* the start in this way always seems to be the same in the diagonal start

in the straight start i went with the tactic of getting as many 'inner pieces' as possible without creating a frontier (as was explained to me before in a reversi fellowship) .. if i cant find an inner piece i will usually go for a corner stone of the inner sqaure (for example C6) .. which is usually what i end up doing in the diagonal start .. i dont know if thats good though .. it just feels right .. but i try not to build that inner corner into a frontier

all: argh! spectators :)
(Just kidding :))

1 diagonal start and 1 straight start is ok with me .. i dont think there is much of a difference though .. but maybe i am missing something as there is a tournament right now in which the participants have to start diagonal

(in 6x6 it doesnt make a difference after the first next move has been made, or it must be the only possible different move which is quite bad i think :))

btw sorry in advance for my slow playing .. new function at work (project leader, managment, instead of software engineer) .. takes quite some time .. and i somehow ended up joining far too many bg tournaments once again :)

but i will try my best to move as fast as possible and still be able to think my moves through :)

John Baker: on another site i have most of the sides .... and will soon have a corner .. i am not sure if i will though :)

does it make a difference which pieces are the powerful few ? are the center 4 the most powerful ? or doesnt it matter much ?

i remember playing a game on here where my opponent went only to the lower left corner giving me less and less options .. and win by a grand total :)

John Baker: sent 2 invitations
i use the tactic of limiting your opponents available moves in 6x6 .. and sometimes try to use it in the second half of 8x8 .. but i cant find a way to use it in the first half of 8x8

what would be a "powerful few" ? anyone like to explain this in a bit more detail ?

in 6x6 i think its best (to a certain degree) to try to maintain the center 4 squares .. in 8x8 i am always in the dark in the first few moves of the game

(just translanted the rules to dutch so i started to think about them :))


would it be a nice variation if a player would place 1 piece of a 3rd color .. (grey) which would turn all enclosed pieces into the other color. When the move is completed and the pieces have been turned, then the grey piece changes into the color of the player who made the move.

so it would act as both a white as well as a black piece .. turning the black pieces which it encloses with a white piece on the other side and turning the white pieces with a black piece on the other side as well

would it be nice when a player could decide to place a piece of the color of the opponent as well ?

both players are still their initial colors .. but they can play a piece in the other color in their turn.

so for example i am white .. and at my first real move (after the 4 pieces in the center are placed) i move with a black piece turning one of my own (white) pieces to black ... then its blacks turn .. and he (of course) moves with black as well .. to turn my last white piece around to black ... making the while board black ... and black would have won

of course this would be bad of me .. so i wont be playing with my opponents piece at the first real move ... but further in the game it might create some interesting situations ?

thanks

are any of the reversi variants on here solved ?

i can understand 6x6 being solved .. but not sure

*nod* it was also explained to me in the reversi-ep fellowship :)

thanks :)

sorry for moving a bit slower now .. i have a lot to think about in reversi ;)

in my reversi rules it says you have to start diagonally
XO OX
OX XO

but on here you can also start horizontally or vertically

XX OO XO OX
OO XX XO OX

is that allowed ?