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Re: What's a keystone? and no mail
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Jun 14, 2001, 10:07 PM
Hi Linda,
Welcome and thanks for the info on the red tube. My site has some info on Pente strategy: a link to some US Pente Assoc. writings and a chapter on Pente strategy by Alexander Nosovsky. There is a book called Pente Strategy by Tom Braunlich but it is out of print.
Anyway, a keystone is a stone of yours that is blocking a four of your opponent. A good move might be for your opponent to threaten to capture the keystone.
I have not been receiving these messages in the mail either, I guess we have to check at the site for now.
Yes, I would like to see a US vs Russia tournament! That is if one of the teams could get money to travel Or maybe meet at one of the Mind Sports Olympiad events. But still a lot of travel either way.
-Mark
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
Thanks for the info on the Keystone; I'm looking into getting a copy of the Braunlich book.
Checking out your page, the links that would most interest me seem to be broken. The one to the World Pente Player's page (http://www.nmia.com/~jlgeag/wppa.html) gets a 404 error. The ~jlgeag subdirectory seems to be gone. I also get an error on the link to renju: http://www.lemes.se/renju/pente/pentgifs.htm though here, backing up subdirectories and doing a search finds the right page: http://renju.nu/pente/pentgifs.htm but these writings all seem to be for someone who knows what they're doing, or someone who's going to snap to it pretty quickly anyway, not for someone who's a rank beginner and just needs a handle to grab on to.
It's really surprising to me that there's so little written about Pente.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
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