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September 9, 2002
Project
GIPF by E-mail
on GamesByMail
Laurent Devigne (Canada) has set up a
new server where you can play games by
e-mail. His first and most important goal
is to make it a place where you can play
"Project GIPF". That is: apart
from GIPF, TAMSK, ZÈRTZ and DVONN
as separate games, you'll eventually also
get the possibility to play with the the
different potentials, and even the possibility
to combine the games. Now, that is an
ambitious plan! And something to look
forward to very much! For the moment the
server already has engines to play ZERTZ
and DVONN (DVONN in three different versions
and ZÈRTZ with, respectively, 37,
40, 43, 44, 48 and 61 rings) and they
function well. There's still a lot to
be done and still a lot of features to
be added, but an amazing amount of work
has been done yet. The main reason why
Laurent Devigne started to build his GamesByMail
server, was because he wanted to make
it possible to play by e-mail through
board representations in JPG format.
Check out www.gamebymail.net
DVONN
nominated for Dutch Games Award
The Nederlandse
Spellenprijs (in English something
like: the Dutch Games Award) was awarded
for the first time in 2001 and can, in
a way, be compared with the Deusche
Spiele Preis. First a jury
puts together a list with nominated games,
and next the players get two months to
vote for their favourite game. The game
that receives most votes, gets the "Nederlandse
Spellenprijs". As such, the award
is a kind of popularity poll. No chance
to win such a poll with an abstract game
for 2 players, nonetheless this nomination
is yet another recognition of DVONN on
particular, but also of Project GIPF as
a whole.
The other nominees are: Cartagena (winning
Moves), Medina (999 Games), Mexica (Ravensburger),
North & South (Phalanx Games), Pueblo
(Ravensburger) en StreetSoccer (Cwali).
The winner will be announced during Het
Spellenspektakel / Games Spectacular
in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1, 2 and
3 November).
If you understand Dutch, you may want
to go to Nederlandse
Spellenprijs for more info.
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