Comments for KJDavies http://www.kjdavies.org Keith Davies' stuff Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Aren’t Reorgs Fun? by Ray Case http://www.kjdavies.org/2011/01/25/arent-reorgs-fun/#comment-1011 Ray Case Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:53:48 +0000 http://www.kjdavies.org/?p=245#comment-1011 Anybody that uses A.S.S. for anything is an A.S.S. For a short while I worked for 'Application Systems & Services' at an insurance company - I rewrote my title from Application Developer to Business Application Developer - Application Systems & Services and put up a professional looking title card on my cube with the first letter of each word in BOLD. I am just amazed at the idiocy of some parts of management. Anybody that uses A.S.S. for anything is an A.S.S. For a short while I worked for ‘Application Systems & Services’ at an insurance company – I rewrote my title from Application Developer to Business Application Developer – Application Systems & Services and put up a professional looking title card on my cube with the first letter of each word in BOLD. I am just amazed at the idiocy of some parts of management.

]]> Comment on Four-way Chess by Robin Leung http://www.kjdavies.org/2011/05/23/four-way-chess/#comment-86 Robin Leung Mon, 23 May 2011 19:27:52 +0000 http://www.kjdavies.org/?p=380#comment-86 Fun idea. Another possibility if you wanted to do the saving-the-king option might be to return the remains of your army to its starting position, probably requiring some minimum "point value" of the remaining forces to include a termination condition. Mostly just that I'm not sold on the idea that king is captured, pieces are removed, it makes sense to me that they'd head home to their farming lives or whatever. As per shorter field, I believe (could be wrong) that gaining control of the central area faster is better. Finally I could also see pawns' movement becoming like rooks (usual two move first and en passant captures still exist?), capturing still diagonally. Fun idea. Another possibility if you wanted to do the saving-the-king option might be to return the remains of your army to its starting position, probably requiring some minimum “point value” of the remaining forces to include a termination condition.

Mostly just that I’m not sold on the idea that king is captured, pieces are removed, it makes sense to me that they’d head home to their farming lives or whatever.

As per shorter field, I believe (could be wrong) that gaining control of the central area faster is better.

Finally I could also see pawns’ movement becoming like rooks (usual two move first and en passant captures still exist?), capturing still diagonally.

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