🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Apr 28, 2022 01:43 AM UTC:
In the past, we had design contests featuring a number of spaces that corresponded to Hans Bodlaender's age. The last of these was 20 years ago when he was 42. Since then, we haven't done any more, because it is a lot of work. But maybe we should do some more since they do help encourage creativity. Since I'm younger than Hans, we could use my age to get some of the board sizes we've missed. I turned 55 on Saturday. It's also significant, given that Hans is from the Netherlands, and this site is physically located in the Netherlands, that the King of the Netherlands turned 55 today. And since we can't say for sure that we will be running a design contest in 7 years, we could do 55 and 62 together as a 55 or 62 space design contest.
In the past, we had design contests featuring a number of spaces that corresponded to Hans Bodlaender's age. The last of these was 20 years ago when he was 42. Since then, we haven't done any more, because it is a lot of work. But maybe we should do some more since they do help encourage creativity. Since I'm younger than Hans, we could use my age to get some of the board sizes we've missed. I turned 55 on Saturday. It's also significant, given that Hans is from the Netherlands, and this site is physically located in the Netherlands, that the King of the Netherlands turned 55 today. And since we can't say for sure that we will be running a design contest in 7 years, we could do 55 and 62 together as a 55 or 62 space design contest.