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Richard's Play By Email Server

Richard's Play By Email Server is a server on the internet setup for the playing of various different online games in the play-by-email method.

The games that can be played there include, but are not limited to:

  • Accasta A stacking game on a hexagonal board.
  • Akron : A 3-dimensional connection game on a square board where pieces can fall.
  • Ataxx: A semi-modern game of capture and conversion
    • Hexxagon : Ataxx on a hexagonal board
  • Backgammon: A classic game of strategy, involving partial chance.
  • Blackout : A popular card game where you must evaluate precisely how many tricks you will win.
    • Wizard : A variant with 8 new cards, Jesters and Wizards.
  • Breakthrough: An amazingly simple concept of a boardgame in which 2 players try to get past each other.
  • Cathedral : A polyomino placing game.
  • Checkers: One of the oldest games on the planet.
  • Chess: Possibly the most famous strategy game of all time.
    • Amoeba : Played on a 9x8 board with squares that slide around.
    • Avalanche Chess: Ordinary chess, except after each move you must push a pawn one square forward if you can.
    • Big Outer Chess : A large chess variant where pieces in the middle of the board become less powerful.
    • Capablanca: A chess variant taking place on a 10x8 board with the introduction of the Chancellor (combines Rook and Knight) and Archbishop (combines Bishop and Knight)
  • CooperYoung: A modern game of bluff.
  • Go: A classic game of strategy that computers are impotent against.
    • Alak: 1-Dimensional Go
  • Philosopher's Football
  • Quoridor: A modern maze game.
  • Shogi: Japanese Chess
    • Tori Shogi: A small variant of Shogi with birds instead of pieces.
    • Yari Shogi
  • Trax: Two players try to make long paths or loops.
    • 8x8Trax : Two players do so on an 8x8 board.
  • Tumbling Down
  • Twixt: Connection game with struts.
  • Unlur : Connection game with different aims for the two players.
  • Wari: Classic African game of marble capture.
  • Xiangqi: Chinese chess.
  • Y: Connection game on a triangular board.
  • Zèrtz: The third game in the Gipf sequence. A sort of hexagonal variant of checkers in which both players use the same pieces.

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