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Rithmomachia Information. Information on Rithmomachia. (16x8, Cells: 128) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
William Overington wrote on Fri, Oct 4, 2002 06:04 PM UTC:
I first learned of the existence of rithmomachia from the book Discovering
Old Board Games by R. Bell.

Is rithmomachia an on-topic subject for this site?

If so, could we possibly organize some sort of game in the forum between
two teams whereby the teams publicly discuss which move to make before
making each move?  This might not end up as too competitive as each team
would know the other team's game plan!  :-)  So, it would all be for fun
with a view to those people who are interested having the opportunity to
participate in a rithmomachia game.  The teams can each be as large as
half the total number of people wanting to take part in the game!  The
game might go on for weeks or even months.  Perhaps some sort of clock
could be used so that the total time taken for deliberation by each team
could be monitored.

Perhaps some web pages could be devised, with some special gif files made
up so as to display the diagrams, made to be size and colour compatible
with the chess symbols used in this website already.  I would be willing
to participate in making the gif files.  The Microsoft Paint program would
be sufficient to make the designs, though I might possibly need to convert
the bmp files to gifs using Paint Shop Pro so as to avoid colour
distortion as that can sometimes be a problem when saving to gif format
using Paint.