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| - Afrika (German for: "Africa"), a mancala game, was designed on March 2, 2004, by Ralf Gering in Bad Breisig, Germany. The game was added to Super Duper Games (a hobby site for playing various freely available games over the web) on November 2, 2006. Soon afterwards another game author began to send the designer harassing e-mails in which he called the game "draw prone" and later, when no draws ever occured, he posted on Super Duper Games a "review" in which he called Afrika an "abomination" with a big second move advantage. In the following weeks the game was deleted from the BoardGameGeek database twice because one user erroneously complained that it is a flash-only game.
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| - Afrika (German for: "Africa"), a mancala game, was designed on March 2, 2004, by Ralf Gering in Bad Breisig, Germany. The game was added to Super Duper Games (a hobby site for playing various freely available games over the web) on November 2, 2006. Soon afterwards another game author began to send the designer harassing e-mails in which he called the game "draw prone" and later, when no draws ever occured, he posted on Super Duper Games a "review" in which he called Afrika an "abomination" with a big second move advantage. In the following weeks the game was deleted from the BoardGameGeek database twice because one user erroneously complained that it is a flash-only game. Afrika received five hate ratings on BoardGameGeek: the first one in 2008 by Chris Steere, after the game's author wrote a critical article about his father Mark who is well-known as a psychopath all over the internet. A second hate rating came from "abstractfan", a fan of the Spanish game designer Néstor Romeral Andrés, after several of his games (e.g. Coffee, Domina 4, Omega, Taiji) were identified by Ralf Gering as rip-offs that are based on earlier games. After a thread was opened on BoardGameGeek on March 8, 2012 to discuss this issue, three more hate ratings were given by Sam Houston (March 8, 2012), Sam Houston, Jr. (March 9, 2012) and Sam Houston, Sr. (March 9, 2012). These were all sockpuppets of Mark Steere, which was acknowledged by him in a public chat at igGameCenter (screenshots were taken as a proof). Their hate ratings affected all five games on BoardGameGeek, which were created by Ralf Gering. BoardGameGeek surpressed any discussion about these hate ratings, closing or removing threads and suspending the games' author for a day for starting a discussion in the complaints department of BoardGameGeek. Eventually all hate ratings were removed by BoardGameGeek except the first one. Afrika has two unusual features:
* capturing is compulsory
* capturing is done without sowing seeds and considered a full move Compulsory capturing is rarely seen in mancala games. Bao la Kiswahili and Kisolo are two traditional variants, which also know forced captures. Capturing without moving seeds is unique to Afrika. The two strongest players are Ralf Gering (Germany) and Maurizio De Leo (Italy).
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