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Weave and Dungeon. Abstract game played on a board divided into Weave and Dungeon, with movement following different rules on each part. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
LCC wrote on Thu, Oct 3, 2002 01:08 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Excellent. This variant has easily the most interesting geometry I've seen.

Peter Aronson wrote on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 10:09 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Now that I've played this (Tony Quintanilla and I recently finished an e-mail game), I can say that it plays very nicely, but that the movement of the pieces takes some getting used to. This is not helped by the abstract design of the pieces, but I like the way they look so much that I'd rather not trade them for more helpful ones.

Joost wrote on Tue, Dec 14, 2004 02:00 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Excellent game. The idea of a semi-3D board is very nice.

I found two errors in the ZRF-file.
1. At the end of the tri-weave macro: The line before the last line
missed
a (recycle)

  else (if not-friend? (recycle) add))
instead of
  else (if not-friend? add))

2. In the recycle macro also counts captured Diamonds as captured
Pentagons

  else
  (if (piece? Pentagon)
  (counter Pentagon1 Pentagon2)
  ))))
instead of
  else
  (counter Pentagon1 Pentagon2)
  )))

And one question:
The ZRF-file does not allow a Diamond-move to the last rank if there is
no
piece to promote to. Is this correct?

George Duke wrote on Wed, Oct 31, 2007 06:53 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Also at the top of 9x9 size, Weave and Dungeon. White Weave is like sine waves seen from above, Black Dungeon. Only the 81 squares may be occupied. ''An implied underpass[which cannot itself be occupied] is the trough of a strand located directly beneath the bridge of a cross-strand'' makes perfect sense. (White)Segments are only two or three long. Of the two motions, sliding and stepping, sliding is continuous either within Dungeon(Black) or along a strand(White). The other motion, a step, is abrupt change of altitude(there are four altitudes, but again exactly the 81 spaces). Capture being by displacement, the connectivity described is enough to differentiate the six piece-types, with some single moves allowed combining sliding and stepping both. Wins are graded hierarchically as Triumph, Ovation, or simple Victory. ''Stalemate and repetition are a loss.'' LCC's 2002 Comment still applies, ''This variant has easily the most interesting geometry I've seen.''

George Duke wrote on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 03:46 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
9x9.  Here's a theorem by Niels Henrik Abel (Abelian set, group, integral) on convergence of series in 1826:     
 0 = 1^n - 2^n + 3^n - 4^n + etc.,  n positive integer.  Here's a poem by Mark Stroud (slashes are lines): ''In a field/ I am the absence/ of field./ This is/ always the case./ Wherever I am/ I am what is missing./ When I walk/ I part the air/ and always/ the air moves in/ to fill the spaces/ where my body's been./ We all have reasons/ for moving./ I move/ to keep things whole.''  How to slice, like apple or pizza, the 10*3 CVs from 'ECV' and 'CVP'? Any 100 of them, like Gilman's or Betza's, are 1%. To evaluate we need subsets of 10 to 200 to compare, in other words, 0.1% up to 2%. Criteria can be any of locale of invention, board size, number piece-types, power density, year invention, gender, shape, geometry, theme, number mutators, winning conditions . Take sizing's '9x9', containing about 50 CVs, 0.5%. Surprisingly there are 25 Very Good/Excellent within 9x9, a disproportionate 50%. Previously reviewed, Weave & Dungeon   uniquely has Circle, Star, Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Diamond.

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