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Hollerschorle
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Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« on: Jan 9th, 2014, 7:24am » |
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Hi folks!
Yes, 4 of the german players actually managed to meet in real life. After we discovered that we're not living that far from each other, we met in a restaurant south of Munich last Friday (Jan 3rd 2014). Alfons, Odin73, Thiagor and myself (Hollerschorle) were there to chat and, of course, play Arimaa.
If anyone wants to join a future meeting don't hesitate to contact one of us.
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Arimabuff
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #1 on: Jan 9th, 2014, 10:13am » |
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One of the early Arimaa champions Till Wiechers (screen name Robinson) is from Germany, his nephew also has an account but I don't remember his name. Maybe you could try to contact him. I see that his account has been accessed 48 days ago, so maybe he'd be interested.
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chessandgo
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #2 on: Jan 9th, 2014, 1:11pm » |
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sounds good 
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #3 on: Jan 13th, 2014, 9:52pm » |
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Cool to hear. So who was the best player among the 4 of you?
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Hollerschorle
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #4 on: Jan 14th, 2014, 10:12am » |
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Ok, ok, I knew i couldn't get away so easily 
Actually there was no single winner, Thiagor won twice against Alfons, Odin73 won against me.
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supersamu
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #5 on: Jan 14th, 2014, 7:24pm » |
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Maybe I will be able to join you sometime. If you weren´t so far away, I would have immediately said yes when you asked me.
I hope to find cheaper connections to Munich.
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GorgeTranche
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #6 on: Jan 15th, 2014, 1:45am » |
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@Supersamu: So where are you from exactly in Germany? I live way up north in Hamburg. Too far away for a game in Munich unfortunately ...
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Thiagor
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #7 on: Jan 15th, 2014, 3:57am » |
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on Jan 14th, 2014, 10:12am, Hollerschorle wrote:Ok, ok, I knew i couldn't get away so easily
Actually there was no single winner, Thiagor won twice against Alfons, Odin73 won against me. |
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I have to correct you - Alfons won the first game against me, after I had been too greedy and underestimated his goal attack I only won our second game.
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Hollerschorle
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #8 on: Jan 16th, 2014, 6:43am » |
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Ok... thanks, Peter and sorry, Ulrich!
By the time your 1st game ended I was desperately trying to break a horse frame, this might explain my confusion...
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #9 on: Jan 16th, 2014, 10:48am » |
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Thank you Sebastian for the organizing of this cool event. We really all enjoyed the traditional bavarian food and of course the opportunity of some real life arimaa matches. 
Concerning my win agaist you, I was quite lucky. First you missed the horse frame, a bit later a blunder by your side was giving me a comfortable position.
Maybe all of us need more live training (I´m sooo rusty). A good reason to do both to meet again and to play more games in the gameroom..
I think, 4 people at the same place was a german record. We may beat this number one day? I really hope so!
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #10 on: Jan 16th, 2014, 12:45pm » |
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What equipment were you using?
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odin73
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #11 on: Jan 16th, 2014, 1:29pm » |
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Hollerschorle and Thiagor joined with a Z-Man edition in their pocket.
I must say, the boardgame looks better in reality than expected. Especially the playing with quite heavy pieces was a good feeling.
Thiagor had a chess clock.
Hollerschorle and me, we played with a normal smartphone for time control, but I think we forgot too often the running clock..
By the way, anybody knows/has a good clock for playing arimaa?
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Arimabuff
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #12 on: Jan 16th, 2014, 3:40pm » |
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on Jan 16th, 2014, 1:29pm, odin73 wrote:Hollerschorle and Thiagor joined with a Z-Man edition in their pocket.
I must say, the boardgame looks better in reality than expected. Especially the playing with quite heavy pieces was a good feeling.
Thiagor had a chess clock.
Hollerschorle and me, we played with a normal smartphone for time control, but I think we forgot too often the running clock..
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I believe, a chess clock is the closer that you can get. Maybe someday they'll manufacture arimaa clocks but I think it's still quite a while away.
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #13 on: Jan 16th, 2014, 4:07pm » |
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on Jan 16th, 2014, 3:40pm, Arimabuff wrote:
I believe, a chess clock is the closer that you can get. Maybe someday they'll manufacture arimaa clocks but I think it's still quite a while away. |
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Any recommendation? I expect, there´s numberless products. Important for Arimaa would be to reach as close as possible the standard game time convention such as 60s/4m/100/0/4h/4m, i.e. a clock providing the move time, a starting reserve, maximum reserve for one move and move rest time accumulation would be fine.
Maybe some smartphone Arimaa clock would be best (Thiagor used a chess clock App on his smartphone)..
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Arimabuff
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Re: Arimaa gathering in Bavaria
« Reply #14 on: Jan 16th, 2014, 10:32pm » |
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on Jan 16th, 2014, 4:07pm, odin73 wrote:
Any recommendation? I expect, there´s numberless products. Important for Arimaa would be to reach as close as possible the standard game time convention such as 60s/4m/100/0/4h/4m, i.e. a clock providing the move time, a starting reserve, maximum reserve for one move and move rest time accumulation would be fine.
Maybe some smartphone Arimaa clock would be best (Thiagor used a chess clock App on his smartphone).. |
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I don't believe that such an App exists yet. It's up to the Arimaa players to write one. The Arimaa clock is very specific, I don't think that it works for other games.
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