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	Gipf for One download @ Game Downloads
		Gipf for One is an excellent PC version of GIPF, a fascinating abstract board game invented by Kris Burm in 1997.
		The addition of three gipfs (which can be "dissolved" into two standard pieces) adds an even more challenging layer to the game.
		Gipf for One is an excellent PC rendition of this intriguing board game, with an intuitive interface and a very tough computer opponent (although you can play against another human player as well, if you want).
	free-game-downloads.mosw.com /abandonware/pc/strategy_games/games_g/gipf_for_one.html (533 words)

	GIPF Game Review & Game Information - Board Game Ratings
		GIPF is a Game GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: in turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in-a-row.
		GIPF is a Project GIPF is not only the name of a game, but of a project as well.
		Players of GIPF represent this potential; the pieces of the winner symbolize the cause of the Big Bang, the beginning of everything--and of the world as it continually comes into existence from that point on.
	www.boardgameratings.com /product_page.php?game_id=53 (396 words)

	'GIPF helped build the financial industry' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		GIPF, as a founder member of the NSX, with capital assets worth almost N$12 billion, is a different organisation from the one the public envisioned at its conception.
		GIPF, through its appointed assets managers, have been pumping about 5% of its capital in non-listed instruments, but the MD said management has felt the process is not well co-ordinated.
		In 1991 the World Bank referred to the GIPF “as number one example of the best practice in pension funds in Africa” and it is probably ranked number six in the world, according to Hango.
	www.economist.com.na /2002/18oct/10-18-11.htm (621 words)

	Pensioners’ Association Planned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nashilongo said the GIPF is facilitating the establishment of the Pensioners’ Association to strengthen its relations with the members and beneficiaries.
		The GIPF’s difficulties in tracing some of its potential members and beneficiaries, is the main reason for the establishment of the intended Association, he said.
		The GIPF is planning to consult its pensioners in all 13 regions to see to it that the establishment of the Pensioners’ Association enjoys majority support.
	www.grnnet.gov.na /News/Archive/2004/may/week3/pensioners.htm (290 words)

	allAfrica.com: Namibia: Investigators Descend On GIPF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		GIPF is the largest pension fund in Namibia, catering for at least 80 000 civil servants.
		GIPF investments were subject to inevitable risk, the Finance Minister said, but thanks to the Development Capital Portfolio, Namibia had "two fine hotels", the revival of copper mines at Tsumeb, large-scale agricultural projects in previously desolate regions of southern Namibia, an abattoir, fish canneries and pig farms.
		GIPF could, like other institutions, [have] refused to finance these projects, but this would have been a neglect of its duty to invest in the local economy, and to help previously disadvantaged Namibians enter the mainstream economy," said Kuugongelwa-Amadhila.
	allafrica.com /stories/200510210064.html (785 words)

	Gipf Review
		Gipf resembles the origins of continents, Tamsk is a desert, Zertz a polar ocean, Dvonn a volcanic landscape, and Yinsh a weather front crossing an open ocean.
		Gipf and Yinsh, self-referential as they are, appropriately begin and end the series, or at least serve as a recursive, wrap-around gaming structure.
		The Gipf Project is a twenty-first century approach to abstract games, deriving the best of traditional games of alignment, capture, territory, and reversals, and delivering them in original and challenging ways, reflecting an ecological, emergent systems worldview.
	www.thegamesjournal.com /reviews/Gipf.shtml (2426 words)

	Investigators descend on GIPF
		GIPF is the largest pension fund in Namibia, catering for at least 80 000 civil servants.
		GIPF investments were subject to inevitable risk, the Finance Minister said, but thanks to the Development Capital Portfolio, Namibia had "two fine hotels", the revival of copper mines at Tsumeb, large-scale agricultural projects in previously desolate regions of southern Namibia, an abattoir, fish canneries and pig farms.
		GIPF could, like other institutions, [have] refused to finance these projects, but this would have been a neglect of its duty to invest in the local economy, and to help previously disadvantaged Namibians enter the mainstream economy," said Kuugongelwa-Amadhila.
	www.namibian.com.na /2005/October/national/05E2C7C45C.html (871 words)

	GIPF Revisited
		The GIPF pieces are very powerful - in the basic game, players lose most of their influence on the board when they make a line.
		GIPF is not just a game; it is the start of a project; Kris Burm intends to produce a series of six games, each of which can be played separately, or in conjunction with GIPF.
		The TAMSK potential sits passively on top of a normal piece until it is pushed to the centre of the board; at this point, the player who owns the potential removes it from the normal piece, and slides it onto the board like a normal piece… effectively giving the player a second move.
	www.scat.demon.co.uk /reviews/gipf2.html (1109 words)

	Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again
		GIPF strategy specifically, I do write about the conceptual orientation of all of these games.
		GIPF the same way you think about traditional abstract games, even though the games look traditional.
		GIPF PROJECT is that they are similarly revealing with more experience, yet they are fun to play as a beginner.
	article.gmane.org /gmane.games.spielfrieks/10409/match=gipf (175 words)

	GIPF washes its hands of Nando's grease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The GIPF is a 20% shareholder in NCI.
		But the general manager of finance at the GIPF, Gunton Cloete, believes that of the total N$10 million, between N$2 million and N$3 million was spent on the purchase of the franchise licence and the refurbishing of the three Nando's outlets in Windhoek.
		We made presentations and recommendations [to the GIPF]”, they said, adding that Sanlam investment managers are only advisors and cannot force the trustees of the GIPF to act on the suggestions or recommendations.
	www.economist.com.na /2005/4mar/04-03-01.htm (581 words)

	RPGnet : Review of GIPF
		GIPF is the first in a series (titled, interestingly enough, the GIPF Project) of abstract strategy games designed by Kris Brum.
		Players may continue by adding GIPF or basic pieces as long as they have pieces, but once a player places a basic piece, no more GIPF pieces may be placed by that player.
		He, however, took to the GIPF capture strategy very quickly and was able to win with ease.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/11/11300.phtml (1772 words)

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		The fewer Gipf pieces you play the easier it becomes to lose by having all your Gipf pieces captured and the more you play the easier it becomes to lose by starvation.
		Players who deviate from this usually play more Gipf pieces, not less, because it is usually easier to recycle superfluous Gipf pieces than to avoid having a Gipf captured.
		Note that by recycling Gipf pieces you can continue to play Gipf pieces for a long time, and some players do this if they manage to keep their Gipf pieces clustered. It is extremely rare to play only one Gipf, although a notable exception is Andre de Laet.
	www.stack.nl /~angelo/studie/adaptive-hypermedia/gipf2.xml (3000 words)

	Games - GIPF
		This is achieved by contriving to line up four pieces of the same colour in a row on the board, at which point those tokens are returned to their owner and any opposing tokens extending from the line of four are captured.
		These are named for the other games in the GIPF project, though the other games are not actually necessary in order to utilise the Potentials named after them.
		GIPF and its sibling games have had a good critical reception and appear to have fared commercially better than most newly devised abstract games of skill.
	listing-index.ebay.com /games/GIPF.html (323 words)

	Welcome to the Drunk Dwarves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		GIPF Project is a series of six independent, two-playter, abstract-strategy games.
		As I mention earlier, each game does not rely on any other game in order to play and could justify their own review, but since this is a project, I thought it reasonable to step back and look at it as a whole.
		What has really impressed me with the GIPF Project, in concept at least, is how the later five games tie into GIPF the game.
	www.drunkdwarves.com /pages/artbggipfp1.html (1101 words)

	Funagain Games: GIPF
		The standard and tournament rules, with the GIPF pieces which do not have to be removed when in a row of 4, further emphasize the importance of position and initiative.
		GIPF pieces in strong positions will help you retain the initiative even after a capture, while GIPF pieces in weak positions will be attacked mercilessly--and their loss is costly.
		The third installment in the GIPF project, following GIPF and TAMSK, ZERTZ is played with 5 white, 7 gray and 9 fl marbles and 37 round tiles.
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=002105 (1370 words)

	Gipf Review
		The winner is the player who forces the other to run out of pieces in his reserve, through capturing to shrink the total pieces available and by positioning of pieces to make it impossible for the opponent to create a line of four of his own color to repossess.
		Gipfs need never be removed from the board, but if a gipf's owner chooses to do so it dissolves into two normal pieces.
		Gipf is exactly what a two-player strategy game should be: fun, intellectual, no luck involved, simple to understand, yet complex enough to allow endless plays without boredom.
	www.gamereport.com /tgr18/gipf.html (736 words)

	Gipf project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The GIPF Project is an award-winning series of six abstract strategy games by designer Kris Burm.
		The series is named after the first game, GIPF, and the idea behind the project is that the reward for winning each of the other games in the series is to allow the winner to introduce new pieces with special powers, called potentials, into a concurrent game of GIPF.
		However, any of the games may also be played individually in the normal way, and they have attained most popularity in this form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gipf_project (291 words)

	GF1 (Gipf for One)
		Gipf was invented by Kris Burm and is IMHO One of the best games ever invented.
		More info at the Gipf homepage (the rules can also be found there).
		GIPF, (C) en (R) Don and Co nv, 1997.
	gf1.sourceforge.net (653 words)

	A Dark and Quiet Room: What's the deal with GIPF? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The GIPF Project is a series of six abstract strategy games, designed by Kris Burm, a gentleman from Belgium.
		The central game would be GIPF, and the other games would each have a corresponding special piece, called a potential, that could be used in GIPF.
		GIPF 5 (or is it 6?) has been announced!
	adarkandquietroom.blogspot.com /2005/09/whats-deal-with-gipf.html (818 words)

	Abstract Gamer » Blog Archive » GIPF: The Project
		So now you have the basic single piece; you have a GIPF piece, which is two basic pieces stacked on top of each other; and you have pieces loaded with the potentials you choose.
		A loaded piece is similar to a GIPF piece in that you need not remove it when it is in a line-of-four.
		The potentials are slightly modified GIPF pieces. The TAMSK potential has an extra ridge inside the outer ring making it look a little like a target. The DVONN potential is a piece with a hole in the center. The ZERTZ potential has some notches in the ridge.
	abstractgamer.com /2006/09/01/gipf-the-project (1057 words)

	David GLAUDE's GIPF Page
		GIPF is quiet an interesting game were everything is yet to be invented.
		It was only a few month later that at an other competition in Brussels I was able two play GIPF with good player.
		I will try to find somebody to play GIPF with, so that next time there is something to win, I will.
	users.skynet.be /glu/gipf.htm (241 words)

	Mindzine - Proprietary News - Gipf News
		GIPF is an MSO medal event and the brainchild of abstract games inventor Kris Burm.
		They play GIPF like Jimmy White used to play snooker: fluent, apparently without stress, always preferring an attack to a consolidating defensive move.
		The best proof of their instinctive play is that they never seem to be short of time; even when they get behind, they nonetheless give the impression they have the upper hand.
	www.msoworld.com /mindzine/news/proprietary/mso4gipf.html (1574 words)

	GIPF
		The intention behind this project is to create a wide variety of possibilities and a growing number of components, so that players will be able to compose themselves which version of GIPF they would like to play at any given moment.
		Players of GIPF represent this potential; the pieces of the winner symbolize the cause of the Big Bang, the beginning of everything--and of the world as it continually comes into existence from that point on.
		The GIPF Project Expansion Set #1 contains 12 TAMSK-potentials; 6 potentials per color is the standard number to play with.
	www.bigboxgames.com /browseproducts/GIPF.HTML (699 words)

	mertner.com/allan » Blog Archive » GIPF and DVONN World Championship
		As I may have mentioned before, the GIPF range of games is truly amazing.
		The latest example of this was at the World Championship of GIPF and DVONN that took place at the Games Spectacular fair in Eindhoven, Holland recently.
		Still, if Kris had to produce and sell a “themed” version of GIPF and turn the pieces into knights, or boats, or sheep, or whatever in order to sell lots of it, then… I guess I could live with that, if Kris could get a little more out of his efforts as a result.
	www.mertner.com /allan/archives/2004/gipf-world-championship (660 words)

	Gipf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The challenge-command for Gipf is the same as for most games, just give the userid of both players and the fun can start.
		The move-command for Gipf is a little more complicated than most games.
		Next you give the position of the spot that will be occupied by the furthest piece you move (= the end of the move).
	www.gamerz.net /pbmserv/gipf.html (446 words)

	Gipf - An award winning 2 player mind game
		GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: in turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in-a-row.
		The purpose is to form successive rows of at least 4 pieces, until the opponent has no piece left to bring into play.
		GIPF is a pure and challenging game that combines classic systems with completely new elements.
	www.pixelpark.co.nz /mind_games/gipf.htm (153 words)

	Game Caravan Boardgames Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		“GIPF is a Game GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: in turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in-a-row.
		GIPF is a Project GIPF is not only the name of a game, but of a project as well.
		GIPF is a Story GIPF takes place before the Big Bang....
	www.gamecaravan.com /qBoardgamesDetails.asp?key=1755&Era=Strategy (518 words)

	Capsule Reviews October 97
		GIPF is an abstract game that is a bit of a blend of Pente and Abalone.
		As intriguing as GIPF is, Mr Burm has a grander plan in mind.
		In his grand scheme GIPF will serve as the centerpiece but, by dropping out to other boards and winning at other games, the players may introduce onto the board new pieces with new powers and abilities far beyond those of mere mortal GIPF bits!
	www.gamecabinet.com /reviews/Capsules1097.html (946 words)

	Games of Towers - GIPF
		GIPF - A GIPF stone is two stones stacked one upon the other.
		White started by placing a GIPF piece at a3, then Black insert at the same cell at east direction, pushing the white GIPF one cell.
		The Black player must remove the 3 single stones and decide to remove or not the fl GIPF, but it cannot capture the other two stones on the same line, since they are not adjacent to that line of 4 (there an empty cell in-between at b4).
	www.di.fc.ul.pt /~jpn/gv/gipf.htm (489 words)

	The Game of Gipf
		Gipf is a two person strategy game, played on this hexagonal board, shown in the starting position.
		If after your turn, your opponent is left with a row of 4 of his own color, he must remove the row before playing his turn.
		In the "standard" version of the game, some pieces are called Gipf pieces, which do not have to be captured.
	www.drking.plus.com /hexagons/gipf/index.html (261 words)

	Board Games by Gamefest.com - Gipf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gipf is a deceptively simple abstract game that will challenge you and your friends.
		The standard play has each player starting with their three GIPF pieces (two pieces stacked like a "king" in checkers) on the board.
		If all three of your GIPF pieces are removed from the board, you lose.
	gamefest.com /product_info.php/products_id/86 (203 words)

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