by "jk" <*axy*@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mar 3, 2008 at 10:55 AM
"Gosi" <gosinn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>I saw that Dyalog has put out a new version.
>
> http://www.truepr.co.uk/news/dl/10/001.asp?2145598-150903-334135-762222
>
> I really love the chessboard they display on the page.
> I have always been a chess fan.
> Over the weekend I bought a replica of a chess the viking used to play
> http://www.gamecabinet.com/history/Hnef.html
> I went on a visit to the national museum and got it there.
> It was a childrens day at the museum.
> There was an exhibition on Lakagigar which killed most of our
> livestock and 20% of the population and caused misery in Europe for a
> number of years after 1783
Björn,
Interesting. Esp. the diagrams. A bit akin to Go, I'd say. But even more,
because of the symmetry, to what we know here in Neth. as "halma", in past
years
(50 years or so) present in every household - seems to an old German or
maybe
Viking-word.