Subject: Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #119
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Ackanomic Games Digest    Wednesday, July 16 1997    Volume 02 : Number 119

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:23:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Move 2 (b):

  bb
  bAA
   A

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:23:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: *gnip*

I forgot, when I came back from Vacation I was supposed to reveal what the
Truth was that the Machine had revealed to me.  Here it is:

IF AND ONLY IF today has a date whose last letter comes after j
in the alphabet, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go
*ping*.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--REM:Document
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
I had a bad migraine, that lasted three long years

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:26:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Move 3 (C):

  Cbb
 CCbAA
    A

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--REM:Document
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
You can't hang people before you've caught them.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:35:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Move 4 (a):

   Cbb
  CCbAA
  aa A
  a

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:39:08 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Move 5 (B):

     Cbb
    CCbAA
    aa A
    aB
    BB

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--REM:Document
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
Elvis to Mars--Kennedy's dead.  I'm coming home.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:57:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Move 6 (c):

      Cbb
     CCbAA
     aacA
     aBcc
     BB
 
/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:59:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Move 7 (A):

       Cbb
      CCbAA
      aacA
      aBcc
      BBAA
         A

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In The Other Room--The Eurythmics:This City Never Sleeps
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
And the waves roll on the beach like a squadron of F-16's

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:05:42 -0700
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Aaron Humphrey wrote:
> 
> Move 7 (A):
> 
>        Cbb
>       CCbAA
>       aacA
>       aBcc
>       BBAA
>          A
> 

The crowd murmurs in disapproval.

**two-star

> --
> --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
> Song In The Other Room--The Eurythmics:This City Never Sleeps
> Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
> And the waves roll on the beach like a squadron of F-16's

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:28:45 -0700
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

**Alexandre Muniz wrote:
> 
> Aaron Humphrey wrote:
> >
> > Move 7 (A):
> >
> >        Cbb
> >       CCbAA
> >       aacA
> >       aBcc
> >       BBAA
> >          A
> >
> 
> The crowd murmurs in disapproval.
> 
> **two-star
> 

I take that back. After 6, there is no way to make the game last past 12 
anyway, so you may as well give it to /dev/joe as quickly as possible.
Although it would be just as fast to concede 1 gamepoint here.

**two-star

Doncha just hate it when people do this? Sorry.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:42:35 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

two-star wrote:
> > The crowd murmurs in disapproval.

> I take that back. After 6, there is no way to make the game last past 12 
> anyway, so you may as well give it to /dev/joe as quickly as possible.
> Although it would be just as fast to concede 1 gamepoint here.

Well, let me just confess here that one of the things that makes me an
awful chess player, and probably tromino go too, is that I have a difficult
time figuring out long-term strategy.  I mean past about a move or two.
:-)  I imagine that if this duel went on to infinity, I might never win
another game from /dev/joe, since I'm just bad at these kinds of games.

> Doncha just hate it when people do this? Sorry.

Well, you _are_ my evil twin, aren't you?  It seems appropriate.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--REM:Finest Worksong
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
Sometimes the wheels need grease.  Sometimes they need sand.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Finishing quickly now:
Move 8 (b):

      bbCbb
      bCCbAA
       aacA
       aBcc
       BBAA
          A
 
/dev/joe

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:59:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

> Finishing quickly now:

Surely you don't believe everything my Evil Twin says, do you?  :-)

Move 9 (C)

       bbCbb
      CbCCbAA
      CCaacA
        aBcc
        BBAA
           A

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Wilson Phillips:Hold On
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
"Very much money because, Terry, people will believe it."

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:21:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Alfvaen Vs. /dev/joe

Move 10 (a)

          a
         aa
        bbCbb
       CbCCbAA
       CCaacA
         aBcc
         BBAA
            A

One C tromino surrounded.
I need to update the web page for this game, badly.

/dev/joe

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