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#729775
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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B-12st

I assume promotion for that sickly bird that just landed in our midst? The miserable thing was so hungry I hear it was eager to join my forces when it saw the stuff we feed ours.

(When I think of rooks, this is what comes to mind rather than a silly castle:

The little guy in the picture must be the person who decided to turn rooks into castles instead...)

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#729547
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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From what I understand, an alliance is automatically created in the following scenarios:

1. Player 1 threatens Player 3. Player 2 then also threatens Player 3 elsewhere so that no matter which front he defends he will suffer material loss (i.e. the total value of his pieces will decrease. The relative values are simple and I'll assume you already know them--they're on Wikipedia if you don't). Player 1 and Player 2 are now in an automatic alliance, because they forced material loss on Player 3, who was unable to defend himself on both fronts.

2. Player 1 moves so that one of Player 2's pieces is now threatening Player 3 with material loss. Player 1 has now just allowed Player 2 a positive gain. Previously, Player 3 was under no threat from Player 2's piece, however, a threat was created when Player 1 moved his piece out of the way. That action can be considered equivalent to an attack (but using another player's piece), hence the automatic alliance. So, to reiterate, Player 1 moves so that Player 2 is now threatening Player 3, though this was not the case before Player 1's move. Player 1 has just created a new threat for Player 3 by allowing Player 2 to obtain material gain.

Now, there is an exception. If Player 1 attacks Player 2, and Player 2 makes a defensive move that results in Player 1 threatening Player 3 with material loss (such as a check), Players 1 and 2 are not in an alliance, because Player 2 was defending himself from Player 1 and would have suffered a loss if he hadn't moved defensively.

Alternatively, if Player 1 attacks Player 2, and Player 2 responds by checking Player 1 (or threatening other material loss), after which Player 3 threatens another of Player 1's pieces, Players 2 and 3 are not in alliance because the initial check was a defensive move made to prevent material loss.

Hopefully that helps, but if not, I can clarify further.

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#729520
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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darklordoftech said:

They could remove the celebrations from future special editions.

 I never thought about it until now, but because each updated edition of Star Wars becomes official canon, they could just release the OOT as the latest edition and it would be official canon again. All continuity problems solved. :)

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#729518
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Darth Id said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

It featured riots, fireworks, flybys, stormtroopers being attacked, giant statues being toppled and "Wesa free!". There is a heavy implication that the Empire has fallen in the "official" cuts that most people are now sadly familiar with, there is no such suggestion of that in the OUT. Plus as I said all the old EU stuff about the fall of the Empire backed up the Lucas approved line that that was what you saw at the end of ROTJ SE.

 Are you fucking serious?!? 

Yes, he is.

Statues of what?

Of people, unfortunately.

And he stuck JarJar in there?

Technically, no.

And nobody stopped him?

Not that we're aware of.

What an absolute tragedy.

Yes.

Thank the Maker I never had the stomach for ROTJ-SE after seeing SW97 & ESB97.

Isn't George Lucas the maker here? ;)

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#729370
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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Post Praetorian said:

RicOlie_2 said:

I assume you're promoting (is that optional or obligatory in Kokusai Sannin)?

Actually, I think I'll have to take that back because it is running on the wrong plane. I have changed it to R-13lm (promoted)

 In the future, please make a new post to either note your edit or update your move, because I missed this. :(

I'm hesitant about changing my last move, since that would mess up the last move each of you made, but I think I'm going to have a rough game ahead of me if I don't. Would you let me exchange P13xy-12yz for L-14kl? If so, do your moves remain the same, or will they be different?

Sorry... :P I hate to mess up the game again. If you deny my request, my move remains L-14kl, and I'll just have to deal with the lance I wouldn't have had to worry about earlier.

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#729082
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Discussion: What was (Or still is) your single favourite Star Wars toy?
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I believe the reason Kenner switched to cloth-caped Jawas was because vinyl was more expensive, and thus didn't sell as well. It cost about the same as a regular-sized figure, if I recall correctly--from my source, not my preexistence--so people didn't feel they were getting their money's worth.  They changed it to cloth so they could make and sell it cheaper, so that more people would buy it.