On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 05:08:07PM +0000, Jerome Abela wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Olivier Teytaud <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > - I did not know the "Surround" game; it looks like a really interesting
> > variation of Go.
>
> Did you find anything about it? I played a very similar game in the
> past with a Russian guy who was raised in Moscow, and claimed it was a
> very popular game among students (as it can easily be played with 2
> color pens and paper, no need for an eraser). The name in Russian was
> more a less a translation of "settlements". I couldn't find any
> reference about it on internet under either name.
I can just say that this is a very popular game in Czech classrooms as
well - and apparently in Poland too. Few randomly googled out pointers:
http://www.kropki.legion.pl/
(EidoKropki! http://eidokropki.reaktywni.pl/#11wCUlkt)
http://cs.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pokladnice_her/%C5%BDidi
(Use Google Translate.)
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will
last at least until we've finished building it.
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