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. In computing, a server is: A computer software application that carries out some task (i. ... Play by mail games are games, of any type, played through postal mail or e-mail. ...

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.
  • Zertz+11: Zèrtz on a bigger board.

Accasta is a stacking game on a hexagonal board for two players. ... Ataxx screenshot Ataxx is a board game which first appeared in 1990 as an arcade video game by The Leland Corporation. ... Backgammon set, 19th century Backgammon is a board game for two players. ... Breakthrough is an abstract strategy board game invented by Dan Troyka in 2000 and soon after published by Zillions (http://www. ... A polyomino is a polyform with the square as its base form. ... For alternative meanings see Checkers (disambiguation). ... From left, a white king, black rook and queen, white pawn, black knight, and white bishop in Staunton chess pieces. ... Avalanche chess is a chess variant designed by Ralph Betza in 1977. ... José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 - March 8, 1942) was a famous Cuban chess player in the early to mid twentieth century. ... CooperYoung is an abstract board game invented by Luke Pebody while a doctoral student in Memphis, Tennessee, and named after a midtown Memphis neighborhood he lived in known as Cooper-Young (see neighborhood website), which takes its name from the intersection of two streets. ... Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC. Go is a popular game in East Asia. ... Alak is a close relative of the board game Go played on a one_dimensional board. It was originally described in A. K. Dewdneys 1984 book The Planiverse; in 2001, Alan Baljeu modified the game to its present state. ... Quoridor is a modern two-player abstract strategy game. ... Shogi (shōgi 将棋) is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and xiangqi are also members, which originated from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof. ... Tori shogi (or Bird Shogi) is a Shogi variant supposedly invented by Ohasi Soei in the late 1700s. ... Trax is a two-player abstract strategy game, invented by David Smith in 1980. ... TwixT is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Alex Randolph. ... Oware is an abstract strategy game and the mancala game most widely considered suitable for serious adult competition. ... Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí, Wade-Giles: hsiang-chi; roughly pronounced shyang-chee; literally translatable as either elephant chess or image/representational/symbolic chess) is one of a family of strategic board games of which Western chess and Japanese shogi are also members. ... Y is an abstract strategy board game invented by Craige Schenstead (now Ea Ea) and Charles Titus. ... The Gipf Project is an award-winning series of six abstract strategy games by designer Kris Burm. ...

External Link:

• Richard's Play By Email Server (http://www.gamerz.net/~pbmserv)