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From: dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz)
Newsgroups: net.games.go
Subject: Re: pbm go?
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 12:14:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 12:14:45 1985
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> Is anyone interested in playing go by mail?  It would go slow, but also
> there would be fewer mistakes due to unsearched spaces..  so you'd probably
> play better.  Is anybody playing go like this now?  Who's interested in
> a usenet mail go tournament?
> 
> 			todd kaufmann  (13 kyu)
> 		    toad@cmu-cs-spice.arpa
> 
> [is games.pbm gone, or is it just gone on my machine?  i would also have 
> posted there...]

It seems to me that several years aGO I read an article in the American
GO Journal where turtle mail GO was discussed.  The author concluded that
the optimum board size for this was (if I recall) 5 x 9.  Electronic
mail might help a little, but you would still be playing on a very
restricted board size.

Upon request, I can dig out my old copies of the journal and try to find
the exact reference.

D.Katz