are there any XXY persons here? please raise your hand!

[OkieDokie]

Hi! I am an XXY person living in Oklahoma. There is also Graeme, in New Zealand. Any others?

BTW you get bonus points for knowing what my avatar image is.

[roguekiwixxy]

Originally Posted by duckslammer

Hi! I am an XXY person living in Oklahoma. There is also Graeme, in New Zealand. Any others?

BTW you get bonus points for knowing what my avatar image is.

Can I say what the avatar is or shall I keep it a secret? I'll keep it a secret just for now.....or I have no idea and I'm just kidding!

[fraulein_Maria]

[quote=duckslammer;17854]Hi! I am an XXY person living in Oklahoma. There is also Graeme, in New Zealand. Any others?

BTW you get bonus points for knowing what my avatar image is.

>>> i'm not XXY.... just two X's but i believe the image is a game of othello <<<

[OkieDokie]

Originally Posted by fraulein_Maria

>>> i'm not XXY.... just two X's but i believe the image is a game of othello <<<

Not XXY and you missed the bonus question... Ah well, we love you anyway.

[JOS]

Also not XXY.... i am XY (with a misfunctioning Y i guess... making me more X LOL?)

and I think the game is a Japanese game called Go... played also on Star trek

please put us out of our misery after 2 or 3 more posts .... assuming I guessed wrong

[roguekiwixxy]

Originally Posted by JOS

Also not XXY.... i am XY (with a misfunctioning Y i guess... making me more X LOL?)

and I think the game is a Japanese game called Go... played also on Star trek

please put us out of our misery after 2 or 3 more posts .... assuming I guessed wrong

I am XXY, I think you'll find, and I couold be wrong, , that the game Othello and the game Go are the same game playing in different countries.

Such as, the world calls it 'Football'. Assocition Football evolved into 'Soccer' in England, which has now reverted to 'Football' but the USA still refers to 'Football' as 'Soccer'.

[melonade]

I looked up Othello and Go, Othello is supposed to have been invented in 1971 and been inspired by Go, but designed with simpler gameplay than Go.

Wikipedia isn't an unbiased source of information for many subjects, but I suppose they can be trusted for some things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi

[OkieDokie]

Originally Posted by JOS

Also not XXY.... i am XY (with a misfunctioning Y i guess... making me more X LOL?)

and I think the game is a Japanese game called Go... played also on Star trek

please put us out of our misery after 2 or 3 more posts .... assuming I guessed wrong

Close! Prince..es got it too.

It wasn't used on star trek though it should have been, because go is infinitely more beautiful than 3d chess. My guess is that in another couple hundred years everyone will play go and chess will be pretty much unknown.

Two places I do know it was used was in the movie "a beautiful mind" (because the protagonist of that movie developed some really complex math theories based on his knowledge of go, but in the movie you only see just a brief flash of the board and they don't explain any of the background) and the other is in a novel called Shibumi, where go is part of the central theme and there are go metaphors throughout the story. In Shibumi, a character is asked what the difference is between go and chess. He answers, "Go is to chess, as philosophy to double-entry accounting". That is soooo true. Actually I know of some other references but they are so obscure you aren't likely to run across them.

I call it a mindsport. It is so much more than just a game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_game

Go has inspired three other games: go-mo-ku, and from that, othello and pente. The latter two are commercially produced, while go-mo-ku is another traditional game that is very loosely based on go.

[fraulein_Maria]

[quote=JOS;17886]Also not XXY.... i am XY (with a misfunctioning Y i guess... making me more X LOL?)

>>> no, over-riden by a very strong X <<<