Re: play style and leaving board question

Noam Izenberg wrote:

> Jared Hilal wrote:
>
>> To me, "facing more or less towards one another" means that the
courses
>> are within 60 degrees of parallel and also in opposite directions.
>
> I think this is a good example of the communication difficulty in this

> entire series of threads. I would never consider ships that are 120 
> degrees divergent (even 90 degrees divergent) from parallel to be 
> "facing more or less towards one another". This particular range is 
> described more accurately by "facing more (at 120 degrees) or less (at

> 95 degrees) _away_ from one another." Only the 90 degree divergent 
> case is equally "towards" or "away, " (and assuming that one force 
> does not start in the FH arc of the other) but the best term for that 
> is "orthogonal".

I meant 60 degrees total, not 60 degrees each.	I.e. If you drew the 
courses as infinite lines, their angle of incidence would be 60 degrees 
or less.  I did not mean that each course was +/- 60 degrees from a 
third (reference) line.

J