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  • From"Carlton Noles" <carlton.noles@xxxxxxxxx>
  • DateThu, 13 Apr 2006 16:54:05 -0400
the files are for an AMIGA game. anlha file is anrchive (lharc) the software to decompress it should be around somewhere. also you would need an AMIGA (or an emulator) and whatever software the game depends on.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Sz'kwa... (Laurie Menke)
   2. RE: Sz'kwa... (Dan Isaac 2)
   3. RE: Sz'kwa... (Dan Isaac 2)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:24:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laurie Menke <laurie_menke@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Something] Sz'kwa...
To: "General Wunderland.Com Discussion List"
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Laurie,  I couldn't find anything that told how to
pronounce the game, but it is a Chinese "kiddies' Go"
that is frequently played in Taiwan, so you might want
to find a Taiwanese person and ask them about
pronunciation.  It apparently means "Four Directions."
Here are the links and book references I found.

Web Sites:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?SzKwa

http://www.pbm.com/pipermail/hist-games/2000/000477.html

http://www.aminet.net/package.php?package=game/wb/
(Note:  this site has a downloadable file with a .lha
extension--I have no idea what that is and was unable
to open it.)

http://www.lysator.liu.se/(/jwz/,v5)/amiga/ar/guide/ar112.text?ShakenNotStirred
  (Note:  this web site seems to intimate that there
was a computer version of the game at some point in
time.)

http://www.xtec.es/~rbernau1/tauler/szkwa.htm  (Note:
includes game rules, but in another language--maybe
Italian?)

Book References:

"The Alien IQ test" by Clifford Pickover, ISBN
0-486-42007-8.

R.C. Bell & M. Cornelius, Board Games Round the World,
Cambridge, 1988, pp. 14-5.

Cliffor A. Pickover, MAZES for the MIND, computers and
the unexpected

Hope this helps!

Laurie



--- "Laurie J. Rich" <knitmeapony@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

> Hello!
>
> My sister is a content editor at a math company, and
> she's looking for
> details (particularly pronunciation, but rules/play
> as well) for a game that
> she says is somewhat similar to Go and is called
> Sz'kwa.  Does anyone know
> of this game, or where I could find out more?  The
> few sites I found when I
> googled weren't terribly detailed -- my guess is
> that there's more than one
> way to spell the anglicisation.
>
> Laurie
>
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:34:49 -0400
From: "Dan Isaac 2" <disaac2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Something] Sz'kwa...
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:39:25 -0400
From: "Dan Isaac 2" <disaac2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Something] Sz'kwa...
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I'm not sure if this went through the last time I tried to send it. I think
that I accidentally put one of the pages I was trying to link in as an
attachment instead, which I think the list does not allow.

See my message below, which hopefully will help your sister out some more.

- Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Isaac 2 [mailto: disaac2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:35 AM
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Subject: RE: [Something] Sz'kwa...


  Pat,

  I don't think that the Tafl games are what Laurie and her sister are
looking for. Those games are based on moving pieces around on a board to try
to either escape or capture your opponent (depending on which side you are
playing).

  However, from the websites I have found regarding Sz'Kwa it does look much
more like Go, which is a game of placing pieces onto a board to create
capture by surrounding opponents pieces. The placed pieces never move other
then to be removed when they are captured.

  Here are the two main sites that I found about Sz'Kwa, and if you know how
to play Go, these sites seem to give enough info to play Sz'Kwa.


http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=1196&part=index&refpage=mont
hindex.php
  http://senseis.xmp.net/?SzKwa

  It is definitely a much simpler game then Go, as the board is much
smaller, you don't need to worry about territories, and you do not need to
worry about rules like Ko since you have a limited number of pieces.

  Here is a site which talks about teaching Go, but it is more geared to
telling people who already know how to play how to teach new people how to
play. I'm not certain if there is enough information on the site to teach a
person from scratch though. But you would only need to learn the stuff
discussed in "Stage 1" to play Sz'Kwa.

  http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/teachgo/

  Note that the site say to teach Go using a 9x9 board. That would be 81
positions, versus the the 21 positions that there are on the Sz'Kwa board. A
full Go board is 19x19. That's 361 playing positions.

  If you are unable to learn the basic rules of Go from that site (and thus
learn Sz'Kwa), I am certain that people here (myself included) could help
with more details.

  Another source of info might be to try to contact the Author of the book
"Alien IQ Test". There is a chapter in that book called "Hyperdimensional
Sz'Kwa". He might be able to provide additional information about the basic
game.

  Hope that helps.

  - Dan

  P.S.> I would imagine that it would be pronounced similar to "Tsa Kwa"
since it appears to be a South Taiwan game. And from one source I saw, it
might translate to something like "Four Directions." Also, there seems to
have been a discrepancy on the number of starting stones (either 20 or 25
each).

    -----Original Message-----
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    Closest thing I could find so far...

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

    Does that help at all?

    _pat


    On 4/12/06, Laurie J. Rich < knitmeapony@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
      Hello!

      My sister is a content editor at a math company, and she's looking for
details (particularly pronunciation, but rules/play as well) for a game that
she says is somewhat similar to Go and is called Sz'kwa.  Does anyone know
of this game, or where I could find out more?  The few sites I found when I
googled weren't terribly detailed -- my guess is that there's more than one
way to spell the anglicisation.

      Laurie


      --
      "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
      President Dwight D. Eisenhower
      April 16, 1953

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