[Icehouse] XVIIIth IIT discussion

[Ross Andrews]

> However, one thing I noticed about
> one of the games that I would like to learn a bit more about is some
> of the play by Ross Andrews.  I noticed mid-game that he had played
> two Large pieces to one side, as if a mini shotgun.  At the end, I saw
> that there were two attackers, which, if I recall correctly, were
> attacking one of the Larges, thus icing it, but they had been played
> with slanted attacks, creating a fortress in which Ross had a small.
> I'm intrigued as to how this came about.  If Ross had played prisoners
> there to create the fortress, my question would be why didn't he play
> them so one was attacking one, and one attacking the other, thus
> squandering them both? If someone *else* had played them, why did they
> play them slanted, to allow the fortress to be built?  My suspicion is
> that Ross played them,

That was the first IIT that I had played in where I really knew the  
rules of the game, so things I did may not have made any sense at  
all. In fact, I was extremely surprised I did as well as I did, and  
I'm sure that if more of the WTS had been in attendance (and not, for  
example, collecting Origins Awards : ) ) I would not have made it  
even close to the finals.

--Ross