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(Message started by: Patrik on Feb 6^th, 2010, 2:14pm)

Title: PositivaPatrik
Post by Patrik on Feb 6^th, 2010, 2:14pm

Hi
I am obviously new to arimaa as I make a post here. I have played chess for about 10 years which you understand is because I like boardgames :).
When I tried arimaa out I found that it was quite different from chess even thought I ofcourse could apply my general understanding for board games. Now I have played a few games and I think I have at least started to avoid obvious blunders. So I was wondering if someone maybe got a tip on how to get better. except from playing a lot which I also intend to do. What I understand there are quite few who play arimaa so I guess there are no books about it?

Maybe this comment is a bit missplaced but I am wondering if anyone else got a problem with google chrome and arimaa. It worked well last week or something but then something happened and I cant understand why. Or I have a clue that it has something to do with google chrome downloading an upgrade to itself but I dont know how to fix it.
Every time I try to enter a game the connecting sign is there forever :S. However it works well with firefox but I was just curious if someone have had the same problem and maybe found a way to solve it.

Title: Re: PositivaPatrik
Post by The_Jeh on Feb 6^th, 2010, 2:18pm

There is indeed a book about it: 2-time World Champion Karl Juhnke's 202-page treatise "Beginning Arimaa: Chess Reborn Beyond Computer Comprehension."

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Arimaa-Reborn-Computer-Comprehension/dp/0982427409/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265494676&sr=8-1

Title: Re: PositivaPatrik
Post by Eltripas on Feb 6^th, 2010, 2:22pm

Also there is the wikibook and you can learn a lot from the arimaa wiki specially about slaying bots:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Arimaa

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/mwiki/index.php/Bot_Slaying

Title: Re: PositivaPatrik
Post by Patrik on Feb 7^th, 2010, 1:24am

So there was a book after all. Nice. I ordered it :).