Category Archives: Board & Card Games

Boardgames Galore

Posted on 08 Jul 2011 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I’ve added a lot of boardgames to my wishlist… I may break the boardgames into their own list since they would be more equally share-able with the boys… [..]

Board & Card Games, Gaming

MoyoGo for Free

Posted on 16 Jan 2007 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 1

Moyo Go Studio is now available for free. You won’t be able to get technical support from the author, the database isn’t nearly as big as in the [..]

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I Got a Go Board

Posted on 30 Dec 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

My dad had given us a gift certificate for the mall, so I used a bit of it at the game kiosk to buy a Go Board. As [..]

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My First Teaching Game of Go

Posted on 26 Dec 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I got my first teaching game of Go today, but before I did that I played yet another bot on KGS. I paid no real attention to the [..]

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Great Go Blog

Posted on 17 Dec 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

ChiyoDad Learns Go is my favorite Go Blog. It is a very good website, especially for beginners. It is where I first learned of Hikaru No Go, which [..]

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Where I First Learned of Go

Posted on 17 Dec 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I first heard of Go eons ago when Atari was the king of video games. I knew they were named for a Go term, but not much more [..]

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Interesting Lesson on Counting Liberties

Posted on 15 Dec 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I was looking ahead a bit in my reading of The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) and came across the following (I changed it [..]

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My Go Book Collection and Books I Want

Posted on 04 Dec 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

Here are the Go Books I currently have: First is Janice Kim’s excellent Learn to Play Go series. These are basically English translations of books from the Korean [..]

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Another Go Update

Posted on 25 Nov 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I have been playing SmartGo a bit… well I only played a couple games, but I have been playing with some of the other features and I have [..]

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Go Update

Posted on 13 Nov 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I haven’t talked about Go for eons. First up. I noticed my favorite Go program SmartGo has been updated to 2.3. It has been very much improved since [..]

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Bunko, A.K.A., Bunco

Posted on 01 Jan 2006 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 3

I played the party dice game, Bunco the other day. Here are the rules, nearly as well as I can tell them. Read more »

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Best Board Game?

Posted on 02 Oct 2005 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

In the new Knucklebones magazine, Erik Anderson writes an article on the Top 10 Essential Games. Feeling a deck of cards is cheating, he goes on to the [..]

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