[Icehouse] RE: Zendo rules question

[Daniel W. Johnson]

At 21:36 -0500 2006-12-19, Brian Campbell wrote:
>Katsu, in Zendo, is when you knock a koan over, so you lose the 
>structure and might not be able to put it back together properly. 
>For instance, a weird piece balanced on the tip of an upright piece 
>is fairly easy to bump and knock over accidentally. Or two weird 
>pieces, both grounded, balanced precariously with their tips 
>touching each other. I think those are what would be considered 
>"katsu traps", since they're so easy to cause a katsu on.

Yep.  Ideally, this would mean that bumping the table could cause all 
the koans with a white stone to change in some way while the ones 
with a black stone are unaffected.  Unfortunately, this can mean a 
lot of judgment calls.
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