jk wrote:
> "Gosi" <gosinn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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news:2942e628-4f31-4f56-98bd-e2a118a3933f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.
"halma" is the Greek work for jumping over things
I can remember playing against my Granddad, but really, when I was
little, we all used to play halma (among other things, like chess)
/phil
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