hello all.

I like this page much. here are nice games and all. Is it possible to create more different games here? Such as renju? a board game, proffessional variant of gomoku for example for stronger players. Or any other?

K, cyou)

i do not know on what games richard is busy but maby that one is also comming

There are already several places on the internet where you can play Renju, see this list. Richard might prefer to support games that are not well supported somewhere else.

hey tunnet, welcome to littlegolem...i hope you plan to play hex here...

Is anywhere available that african game, where you take tokens (stones, beans, ets.) from one of your holes and distribute them to othe holes?

It has many variants and many different strange names but I can't remember any :-(

I saw this only at one game-by-mail server.

I think the game you are descriping is called Kalaha.

No, I have never seen it anywhere on the net.

Mancala is a common name for this game. One of the more popular variants is called Wari.

It can be played real-time at www.ludoteka.com, and www.playsite.com, and turn-based at the pbem-server www.gamerz.net/pbmserv.

Yes, that's the game I thought.

Pbmserv is that mail version. Seems there's no web-turn-based version.

I vote for adding come version to Little Golem.

I would also like to see a Mancala game here, but the question is, which version. Wari, which is the most popular version in Europe, has been solved by computers, and so it is not suitable here.

Why is it unsuitable if it's solved? 6x6 reversi is solved to, but still is a great game to play!

There's a page on the Internet where you can enter any wari position and get the optimal move out. To me, this makes it unsuitable for a turn-based server, but it's still a terrific game for over-the-board play.

I see your point, but I dont agree. There is a freeware program that calculates the solution of any 8x8 reversi board to 26+ empties. Oh, and it has a huge opening book. So it's practically unbeatable by any human. This program being freely available doesn't make playing reversi online not interesting.

I agree with with klaashaas, the same situation is in chess, there are several programs unbeateble by any human (maybe with exceptions of some grandmasters :-)), and chess is still very popular web-turn-based game.

I'm playing web-turn-games on several other servers and the rule on these servers is that you can not use anything besides your own brain. It's not allowed to use computers to analyze games and to calculate the next best move. Using books and datebases is allowed.

In my opinion, this rule should be written at least in FAQ (i didn't find it there).

The problem is databases. When a game has been solved in the way 7x6 Connect Four has, a database is all you need. I don't know if Mancala has been solved in that way.

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