10 years of Little Golem

Hi all,

something big has passed rather unnoticed, just like the Y2K bug:

Player #1002

Name: Richard Malaschitz

Registered: 2002-03-06

On this occasion I would like to thank Richard for (t)his wonderful site. Dakuju mockrat za tvoji skvelu praciu. :-)

Thomas

pritty cool

Awesome. congratulations LG for 10 years of games and life!

THANKS RICHARD for this gift!!!

Everyone else, go and pay your membership to support Richard and his wonderful website!

player

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/info/player.jsp?plid=1053

was the first to post on the forum

http://web.archive.org/web/20090327210124/http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/forum2.jsp?forum=1&page=100

Aah, yes, incredible!!! 10 Years!

Congratulations to Richard Malaschitz and the Little Golem community.

Yes, thanks Richard, and we should perhaps honor you by all becoming Members :)

Bill LeBoeuf

Congrats to us all! Richard, would it be possible to pay bij iDeal? It's a very commen paysystem in the Netherlands. It's, well... ideal.

I am not sure I am the first to have posted in the forum. I am certainly the last to have posted when I push the buttom now. There are other posts from the same day... I might be one of the top posters anyhow.... and I am still around... 10 years ...

Yes, than you Richard and than you everyone else for making the community what it is.

Live long and prosper , Littlegolem.

ditto

I first signed up in April of 2002, forgot that I did so, and then signed up AGAIN two months later, in June.

I asked Richard to delete the first account. I should have asked him to delete the second account! If so, my member ID number would be even smaller and I could celebrate ten years as early as next month! As it is, I officially now must wait until June. :)

I signed up at the beginning of this year, but i would also like to thank Richard emphatically for his efforts.

For one individual to create a venue and a terrific community for these games is remarkable accomplishment.

Player #1017

Name: Elisa Kabiljo

Registered: 2002-03-06

I signed up same day as Richard!

Thanks Richard for all your works!

Player #2136

Name: Malaj

Registered: 2003-01-12

With my nine years and two months I am a youngster, it seems... Originally, I came to play gomoku at this site, before bots and software assistance started to dominate the game. Since then I have discovered a number of great word games here, most of them developed by Richard himself.

Thanks Richard, for all this.

Player #1577

Registered: 2002-08-28

This means I've been playing Go for almost 10 years now... haven't progressed as much as I had hoped back then :-)

Congratulations, Richard, and many thanks for this great site!

I didn't realize you were here, Bill LeBoeuf. Thanks to you, too, for the work you do making 18xx games happen at the World Boardgaming Championships.

player #4889

Registered: 2004-01-13

1st game here Hex. After that... all of them :D

Thanks alot :)

Well, I have to wait even until September 9 to celebrate 10 years, so I guess I'm also a youngster... ;) I think this community consists of quite many staying a long long time here... which also tells something about the success and spirit of the community :) Congrats to all celebrating ten years 2012 and all who will celebrate ten years the years to come!

And thank you to whoever mentioned Little Golem on rec.games.abstract, so I could find the place when it was 11 months old. I imagine it was Ed or David, but whoever, thank you.

Hello, old-timers, do you folks remember how you discovered this wonderful site?

I myself found LG from the Wikipedia article on Connect6, my favorite abstract board game at that time.

I don't remember at all how I discovered. I think I googled (AltaVista, rather then) reversi and gomoku. I was getting annoyed about IYT, and found something better... but to have found it being only 1 week old I don't understand.

I think I heard of it for the first time whilst playing Hex on Kurnik, possibly from David Bush and/or Tray Dedrickson. But I decided to join after hearing someone talk about it at the MSO 2003, possibly Fred Kok.

same story as Hjallti.

I used to play in IYT , (Btw: the ladder thing it is a good idea!)

but then a i discover LG, at that time i was just looking for a place to play Go-moku.

I'm a young'un here; started in 2004. Guy from the San Francisco Go Club showed LG to me when I was going to the beginners nights there.

I want to thank LG for all the great games I've been able to play here. Congratulations to LG for the wonderful 10 year milestone!

I played a game of go with Richard on dragongoserver and hi invited me to LG!

probably thinking you were a girl , called Elisa.

Probably thinking he/she was a psychiatrist!

I have no idea how I found the site at all. Apart from briefly looking into vying games (in part to see if I could get RoRoRo playing there too), I've never really looked at any other game playing site, nor do I feel any temptation to. LG has it all - a wide enough range of games, and an excellent community. Thank you Richard!

Ten years ago I used to play chess with a friend who was far away via e-mail... then we tried to find a chess board on internet that we could use instead of having to put up the pieces physically every time... and I found Litlle Golem where we could easily play our chess games... Just like FatPhil, I have never been interested in using any other game site. Little Golem has it all!!!

... or almost all... just lacking Chinese Chess ;))

I found LG after FatPhil mentioned it on sci.crypt. BTW, Phil, do you still read sci.crypt? I continued long after David Wagner lamented its deterioration, but not in the last year or so. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Many thanks to Richard continuing to improve the site at such a fast pace that bugs get into production, and for fixing said bugs! :)

Congratulations, Richard!

Wow, thank you Richard for the GREAT site!

@MG - I have a killfile from hell, but I still read the few posts that get through. Not seen any need to contribute anything recently, though.

I found Little Golem when searching Go servers I can use from the office (I cannot play on a real time server, turn based are perfect). Because LG had also Hex, which I learned from the Martin Gardner book in the 80's and never really played, I got hooked. Since then I tried almost every game here and ten years went by.

Yes, I have to thank Richard.

My brother (Felipe, who I believe is now only playing go here) told me about LG. And I think he heard about it from some guy in São Paulo Nihon Kiin. We later shown it to many friends, among them Harold and Alan, who are both still quite active here (see my profile if you don't know who the hell I'm mentioning but are curious enough)