http://cheyne.net/blog A minimalist blog, with a pretentious title, about strategy games. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:30:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/12/st-petersburg/ http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/12/st-petersburg/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:17:37 +0000 Iain http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/12/st-petersburg/ I may be years behind the bleeding-edge, but I have been playing St Petersburg a lot recently online at Yucata or against the Westpark Gamer’s offline version.

I underestimated this game. It is true that the only path to victory is collecting aristocrats, but it has subtle strategic qualities that I only recognised after multiple plays.

The offline version has fiendish AI. In two-player games, I now beat it about 50% of the time, but I have played at least ten games. Definitely try it out.

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