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bombur · 12-11-2002, 08:37 PM

"(Bow's before Bombur's Chessesque knowledge!)"

No need to bow. In a large net forum, the odds are that if one takes any obscure and inconsequential area of trival knowledge, there is one to know something of it.

I am a hobbyist of abstract strategy games. I am rather good amateur in chess (about 1300 elo perhaps) though I do not play in tournaments and I have 12 kyu belt (amateur... yellow-belt equivalent perhaps) in Go.

"Just to add another point, there was an ancient Welsh game which translates as 'throwboard' which comes up in the Mabinogion (written ~900s AD, but referring back to times well before). Probably a whole Celtic board game thing going on. I imagine board games like these go way back into prehistory in many cultures, so OK for Middle Earth."

I completely agree, this is what I meant. I do not know of this heritage, but I find it easy to believe that such exists.

"Anyway, to digress slightly, I can't believe you don't know snakes and ladders!"

I do not. I doubt that anyone in Finland does, at leas by that name. But I'd love to hear of it.

[ December 11, 2002: Message edited by: bombur ]

12-11-2002, 08:37 PM	#17
bombur Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: finland Posts: 126	"(Bow's before Bombur's Chessesque knowledge!)" No need to bow. In a large net forum, the odds are that if one takes any obscure and inconsequential area of trival knowledge, there is one to know something of it. I am a hobbyist of abstract strategy games. I am rather good amateur in chess (about 1300 elo perhaps) though I do not play in tournaments and I have 12 kyu belt (amateur... yellow-belt equivalent perhaps) in Go. "Just to add another point, there was an ancient Welsh game which translates as 'throwboard' which comes up in the Mabinogion (written ~900s AD, but referring back to times well before). Probably a whole Celtic board game thing going on. I imagine board games like these go way back into prehistory in many cultures, so OK for Middle Earth." I completely agree, this is what I meant. I do not know of this heritage, but I find it easy to believe that such exists. "Anyway, to digress slightly, I can't believe you don't know snakes and ladders!" I do not. I doubt that anyone in Finland does, at leas by that name. But I'd love to hear of it. [ December 11, 2002: Message edited by: bombur ]