Overwhelming Gearwheels: Recent Changes

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2019-01-18

2019-01-16

20:35 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – Karl, so we've identified a formation of pieces for either player that could be useful or less than worthless depending on circumstances and how the . . .
14:47 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . Karl – Relinquishing control of the giant stack (and worse, distributing it across the board) would be a huge sacrifice, but if it were well positioned, it . . .
05:43 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – Karl, I'm not sure I follow. My capstone may have had reach, but only at the cost of releasing all that potential energy underneath. Are you . . .
04:38 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – What do you think about this as either a topical or perennial interjection? //Great galloping molasses!//
01:27 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . Marty – So given the info here, we can determine just how slow molasses in January is. And in sufficient quantities, not that slow at all! In fact, lethally . . .

2019-01-15

23:05 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . Karl – Nice write-up of our Tak game, Ron. One detail that I found interesting is that earlier in the game, I had a largish stack similar to your large one . . .

2019-01-11

2019-01-10

01:50 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – You should try the Solo System! That's how I first got to play Tak. The original is linked from ScoreBoard, and I converted/created a percentile . . .
01:20 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . MichaelFrink – Interesting. I got a Tak set about 8 months ago, but sadly haven't been able to play it yet.

2019-01-06

18:23 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – OK. Break a leg, Trevor!
11:08 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . TrevorLDavis – I'll share details later when I'm not in the middle of PhD defense madness -- maybe via an R 'vignette'.
02:08 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – Fantastic! Don't let me or anyone else naysay. Can you share details at this point, maybe on the Piecepack Wiki?
01:21 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . TrevorLDavis – Too late! I think I've already invented a new, non-standard general human-readable piecepack game notation very loosely based on PGN that could . . .

2019-01-05

21:43 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – I'm psyched by this ferment! However, let's not invent new, non-standard notations. For example, SuperDuperGames already uses a PGN for Alien City. . . .
19:47 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . TrevorLDavis – * The moves in Alien City should also be cleanly expressible by establishing a grid and using "fairy" chess notation (using the "drop" notation used . . .
16:48 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – Rereading the [rules to Piecepack Cooking], it seems they could really benefit from . . .
16:40 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – Trevor, the experiment you suggest could be really fun and would be a good test of [piecepackr]. Actually, . . .
10:46 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . TrevorLDavis – I'm probably an easily crushed newb for most of these games and won't have any spare bandwidth for the first few months of this year but I could . . .
01:43 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . Anonymous – Sorry, it was me! Spiny Mel!

2019-01-02

05:39 UTC (diff) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . RonHaleEvans – Well, those are some overwhelming gearwheels, all right: a functioning replica of the Antikythera Mechanism made from LEGO. Pretty cool! What . . .
02:55 UTC (new) Comments on Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01 . . . . Anonymous – https://youtu.be/RLPVCJjTNgk