Dmitri,

You are right, being able to play the game here without the restriction is my main concern.

You posted your opinion on whether the restriction should be placed on the 19x19 board and the name of the game. I disagree with your opinion and wanted to post my thoughts on the subject.

I’d like to be able to play unrestricted on the larger board. I don’t like games where the edge comes into play. But I suppose the compromise of having it on only the smaller board is ok. My only other concern is what happens if we no longer need the 13x13 board for WebTV users. I hope you’d let us play unrestricted on the big board then. But we can worry about that another day. ;-)

The name of the game isn’t really important to me, although I like Pente & Original Pente because they reflect the history of the development of the game. I think any further discussion on it would be splitting hairs, but you are welcome to have the last word if you have anything you would like to add.

Thad