Talk:Alea evangelii

Articles for Deletion debate
This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash talk 23:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Can be tried with Go equipment
This would be easy to try with go equipment, black and white markers on a 19x19 grid. (Perhaps these particular dimensions are not historical, but convenient for just this reason. Is there a link for archaeological evidence?) One might use a coin for the King Ship. If you try it on an internet Go server, note that the diagrams are labelled without the letter "i" in Go, so the King Ship starting position is "J 10" not "i 10" and the last column is "t" not "s". Peter H. St.John, M.S. 16:41, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

In answer to your question about whether the dimensions are historical: yes, a Viking burial yielded a broken board with nineteen lines along one side; by all the other evidence, these boards were always square. J S Ayer (talk) 02:15, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

19x19 vs. 18x18
Yeah, I would absolutely say that Chess is played on a 9x9 board. Because in Alea Evangelii it's not the squares that matter, it's the lines. Danjel 17:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

"...that Chess is played on a 9x9 board..." : chess is played on a 8x8 board mate! 90.199.19.2 (talk) 18:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC) Jonah