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RicOlie_2

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#687002
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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Kx4v

Actually, the reason I respond so quickly is because I homeschool and do most of my schoolwork on or near my laptop. I have desktop notification for my gmail and so I reply whenever I see a box pop up for my email notification for this thread. I also spend a lot of time on my computer in the evenings, which is why I'm so quick to reply then.

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#686994
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The Historical Discussion Thread: All Discussion Pertaining to History is Welcome
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Warbler said:

RicOlie_2 said:

^You're a day or two early. The Challenger was launched on the 29th.

 incorrect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

 So it was. Maybe I'm thinking of the other one...whatever it was, it also started with a C, but more likely one of our sources is just wrong (I would guess mine).

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#686923
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The Historical Discussion Thread: All Discussion Pertaining to History is Welcome
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^You're a day or two early. The Challenger was launched on the 29th.

January 29:

A.D. 1595: Probably the first performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette.

A.D. 1845: Edgar Allen Poe publishes his famous poem, "Raven".

A.D. 1978: Sweden bans aeorosol sprays due to their negative effect on the ozone layer.

Except that....they hardly have any effect on the ozone layer, so it was a waste of time.

January 30:

A.D. 1835: Assassination attempt on U.S. President Andrew Jackson.

A.D. 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor.

A.D. 1939: Hitler calls for the extermination of European Jews.

January 31:

A.D. 1849: The Corn Laws are abolished in Britain.

A.D. 1865: General Robert E. Lee is named Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies.

A.D. 1876: All Native Americans are ordered onto reserves by the U.S. government.

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#686916
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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darth_ender said:

I am curious, did you alter your first move?  Not that I mind, but I see the post was edited, and I thought you had moved your tokin to 1iv, not 2iv.  If so, I responded to the wrong move.  If not, I'm a dunce, though I can live with the move I made.

I'm back! No, I did not alter my move, just fixed a fragmentary sentence. Also, what move did you make? You didn't confirm that I had guessed what it was correctly. You called G-2i+L, but either you missed an 'i' or you were looking at the first part of the move on Zillions, which is the square you moved it from, not to. I assumed you meant G-2ii+L and moved accordingly.

Yeah, it's a tricky game that requires a lot of planning, but it's really fun.  I am enjoying it much more than in the past, just because you're my playing partner.

Does that mean you enjoy playing a human player, or am I just a great guy? ;)

T-4ii+L

 T-3iii+L

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#686400
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Getting to a specific page in a thread
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That works some of the time, but what if I don't want to read the whole thread, or if I've already read the pages and want to skip back to reference or quote something. If I'm in a thread that's over a hundred pages long, and I want something I think is around page fifty, it's going to take a while just clicking the back or forward arrow without being able to skip pages.

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#686396
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Getting to a specific page in a thread
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On a related note, topics on the forum pages display the number of pages like this:

1 2 3 4 5 ... 60

but could it instead look like this:

1 2 3 ... 58 59 60?

I find that I often want to read the last few pages of a long thread to get the context of the current conversation if I join in late. It would also be nice if it looked kind of like this:

1 2 3 5 <5> 6 7 8 60

or something similar, so that a person who wants to, say, retrieve information from a previous page, but doesn't want to click the back arrow fifty-bajillion times can do so? This would be especially helpful for fanedit threads which tend to get pretty long.

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#686341
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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Assuming you missed an "i", I move L-2iii+T.

I like this one quite a bit, actually. It's difficult to play, but a lot of fun. I like how there aren't a lot of pieces, but since they switch back and forth the variety of moves isn't lost. This allows for a lot of possibilities that wouldn't exist in regular Shogi, though it can be limiting in other ways. I find I have to plan ahead a lot more, which is good practice since I'm fairly bad at that most of the time.