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cricnewbye
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Initial setups
« on: Feb 5th, 2008, 10:27am » |
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Hi I'm very new here and on the game of Arimaa in general... I found the wikibook or Arimaa Strategy and Tactics but I saw that not much space is dedicated there about the Initial Setups... I understand that its no so crucial as in Chess or similar but I wondered if anyone can give me some general tip. For instance: Elephants and Camels should never stay in the back row, but they are better upfront right? Thanks for any possible tip you are able to provide.
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RonWeasley
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Re: Initial setups
« Reply #2 on: Feb 5th, 2008, 12:36pm » |
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The silver one is used only by Slytherins. Don't use it unless you want to be labelled as a muggle hater.
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Arimabuff
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Re: Initial setups
« Reply #3 on: Feb 5th, 2008, 1:34pm » |
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on Feb 5th, 2008, 12:36pm, RonWeasley wrote:| The silver one is used only by Slytherins. Don't use it unless you want to be labelled as a muggle hater. |
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I don't believe you can blame The_Jeh's defeat on his setup, in fact I am almost certain that the outcome would have been the same had the setups been switched.
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Re: Initial setups
« Reply #4 on: Feb 5th, 2008, 1:42pm » |
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on Feb 5th, 2008, 1:34pm, Arimabuff wrote:
I don't believe you can blame The_Jeh's defeat on his setup, in fact I am almost certain that the outcome would have been the same had the setups been switched. |
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Yes and I'm not sure Ron meant to imply that. But I do think Ron is right advise new players to avoid that setup, at least for now.
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omar
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Re: Initial setups
« Reply #5 on: Feb 8th, 2008, 12:43am » |
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on Feb 5th, 2008, 10:27am, cricnewbye wrote:For instance: Elephants and Camels should never stay in the back row, but they are better upfront right? Thanks for any possible tip you are able to provide.
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There was some discussion about opening setups in a previous thread.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=talk;action=display;nu m=1106048769;start=10#10
It would be interesting to go through the games database and collect all the different opening setups being used by human players and order them based on popularity. This would provide a good starting point so that the more popular setups could then be discussed and evaluated further. The results of these discussions could then be documented in the wikibook.
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