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(Message started by: seanick on Oct 21^st, 2006, 10:59am)

Title: playing back old games
Post by seanick on Oct 21^st, 2006, 10:59am

To summarize the following: What are all the known ways to watch a finished game, by it's id?

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I realize I have played far too many games in the worst possible way: Going through the motions.

Interspersed throughout these frequently dismal examples of why that is a bad habit, I played a few games where I put in more thought than usual, and it really helped. I can't remember what all I had figured out in those games.
I want to quickly review all games I have played. At the moment, this is possible by viewing the games against each opponent - I haven't played more than 50 against any oppponent for one color. but I would prefer to use a list of games without having to search through them that way.
I know of a few methods to review games by id, and have saved them in a list. Those methods are:

http://www.arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/replayFlash.cgi?gid= (game) &s= (w/b) &client=1
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/showGame.cgi?gid= (game) &s= (w/b) &client=1
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid= (game)
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=(game)&s=(w/b)

Please do let me know if that is an incomplete list. However, the one I was thinking about using this time, but which I can't seem to find a link to, was one where you could paste the list of moves into a text field and it would allow you to play back the game without it even having to be connected to the server, if I remember correctly. That would allow me to just use the list of games I downloaded as a zip file, and filter it by user name- thus providing all of the Arimaa games I have played in a complete and compact format.

Does anyone have a link to that page, if it is still online, or have any other ideas for good ways to play back old games?
Was this one of the player's personal web sites? I really don't remember whose it was.

Thanks
NICK

PS. Whoever wrote any of these: Great job! (especially so for Omar; not sure who else was involved for any of the other versions, but they are good too! my only remaining ask is an offline viewer/ postal client for mobile phones :)

Title: Re: playing back old games
Post by omar on Oct 22^nd, 2006, 10:04am

I think you might be looking for this:

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/planGame.cgi

It is listed on the Games page:

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/

Title: Re: playing back old games
Post by seanick on Oct 23^rd, 2006, 12:31am

yep, I think that was it. thanks!

Title: Re: playing back old games
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 25^th, 2006, 7:06pm

on 10/21/06 at 10:59:14, seanick wrote:

I realize I have played far too many games in the worst possible way: Going through the motions.

I remember reading in a chess book once that whenever you play a game, you learn. If you play carelessly, you will learn to be careless, and if you play intensely you will learn to be intense. I remember feeling that it was a little harsh of the authors to demand that everyone always play hard in every game. Should we rule out having a relaxing game for fun? We don't all have to be hell-bent on winning all the time.

On the other hand, it is absolutely true that you learn nothing from going through the motions of playing, except that maybe you learn bad habits. There is a great deal of evidence that to get better at chess you must study chess. There are people who play thousands of chess games in their life and only get marginally better, because they never study.

I say, do whatever floats your boat. If you don't care about improving much, then just play. It's a game, so have fun. But if you do want to move up the ranks, then you have made an extremely important discovery, seanick, about what accomplishes that and what doesn't. Best of luck reviewing and analyzing your old games.