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(Message started by: Frank on Sep 9^th, 2008, 1:26pm)

Title: Physical Arimaa set
Post by Frank on Sep 9^th, 2008, 1:26pm

This has probably been discussed before and I'm aware it probably isn't financially viable yet, but I see the manufacture and sale of a physical Arimaa board and set vital to the future of the game.

As great a medium for spreading information as the internet is (it is of course the way I and I'm sure most discovered Arimaa) only a very select group of people will ever be reached this way (to put it bluntly: geeks). Whenever I've tried to introduce others using a chess board they find it very difficult to reprogram themselves to call a rook "horse" or a pawn "rabbit" and similarly with movements. Maybe I wasn't a good teacher but certainly I feel that if the same thing were done with a set that looked like a distinctively different game then they might have been more open to learning.

I know when it does happen I'll definitely be buying one!

Title: Re: Physical Arimaa set
Post by aaaa on Sep 9^th, 2008, 1:34pm

Have you seen this thread (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=talk;action=display;num=1214335888)?

Title: Re: Physical Arimaa set
Post by Frank on Sep 12^th, 2008, 3:27pm

Thanks, I thought I couldn't possibly be the only one to be thinking this. It's absolutely the right way to go, Arimaa is just too good a game not to get noticed.