Looking for Rithmomachy Players

From: max@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb)

Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1992 22:15:02 +0000

Would any of you care for an e-mail game of rithmomachy?  It
was invented in the year 1100, and was played throughout the
Middle Ages.  It uses a 10-16 X 8 board, and circles, trian-
gles and squares with a white number on one side and a black
on the other. Imagine chess with several methods of  capture
based on forming arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic series.

For a fairly complete set of rules (for various versions  --
we would have to choose a reasonable subset) mail me here.

Hope to hear from you!

max.

The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of
        the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws
        of  Nature. The player  on the other side  is hidden from us.
        We know that his play is always fair,  just, and patient. But
        also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake,
        or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
                -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
                   English biologist

References

pbem player needs group
mckee@csd.uwo.ca (Steve McKee)
Tue, 02 Jun 1992 20:42:12 +0000