From: "Chris McMahon" <pharmakeus-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: d/g&wei-qi/igo
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:53:35 +0000


Is this game, mancala, the game where the board is divided into "farms" and 
you sow seeds in a rotational manner attempting to drop the last seed on a 
neighbors farm where there is already more than one seed and thus caonsuming 
those seeds for yourself? A game of symbolic violence, aggressive as 
potlatch? Moreover if your opponent has no seed in his or her farms, one is 
obliged to feed those farms - which will not lead to any consumption by me 
this turn, but sets the stage for lots of consumption by me, from his or her 
farms, in future terms.

:) Chris

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