Frankly, one of the things that inspired me to create a blog, was some excellent articles written on this website: http://www.thegamesjournal.com/.
Going back to 2001, this site has scores of articles on games, design, rules, history, interviews, really fascinating stuff. Literally hundreds of pages of reading material regarding board games. Two Canadians, Greg Aleknevicus and Frank Branham are the editor and publisher of this internet magazine. An aritcle in this months edition discusses the 5 types of boards used in games: player aids, fixed, variable, domino, and hybrids.
"For me, there is an intrinsic interest in the boards themselves. Some are near works of art while others are little more than a pale canvas with a few lines scrawled about. Comparing the interpretation, the treatment for similar themes or maps can be enlightening. Consider that Vinci, Mare Nostrum, Civilization (Tresham/Avalon Hill), Age of Napoleon (Phalanx) and Risk... are all artistic interpretations of the same general area of this planet; the difference in the exposition is amazing ."
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Will be playing Carcassone, Chess, Serinissima or Mare Nostrum this weekend, maybe Settlers. Will also have the date for GOF 3.5 soon. Vote for your games below! (and COMMENT with suggestions if you don't care for my list)
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Mike: Yep, totally cool! Very interesting. I am going to post a main article about this when I can play with it a little more.
How did you discover this one? The computer draws a "neon" line between pieces to illustrate a possible line of play. It seemed to take the thickest line during the first 10 moves that I play, but what was really cool was to see some secondary strength lines and where the algorithm was pointing at... Very cool... I have Chestmaster 10, and Fritz 7. They have a "line of play" conisderation feature which you can toggle, but you don't get a sense as to what the weightings are visually as easily.
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