Hear! Hear, Satan! Amazing, here on the Pente board I have found someone who has missed the whole discussion about the smaller board and the move restriction that we've been having about Keryo Pente, but he comes to the same conclusion about it talking about Pente as quite a few others and I have! Satan, back about a month or two ago a discussion got started on the merits of Keryo Pente being played on the 13 X 13 board in the Tournament Discussion board. The webmaster(Fencer) then created that game on this site. It originally had no move restriction. It now does. Anyways, if you'd like to see just what a nitwit Dmitri is, you can find the posts and various other people's replies starting there(you might have to go back a page or two now) and then move to the Small Keryo Pente discussion board to find the rest of them. I've had a running thing going with him that you'll find through out it. He seems to think his postings are eloquent to no end, but they're not. Aside from his stated objection to allowing it, he never really addresses anybody's liking for the Original Pente (Hey, I like that name for it!) except in some grandiose vision of it being detrimental to their developement as Pente players. I have since dubbed him "The Keeper of All That's Pure and Standard About Pente as Played on a 19 X 19 Board". When I point out things like this he ignores them and then tells me that I haven't said anything. So I have given into attacking him or atleast just pointing out the errors in his ways. I've recently slowed this down as it isn't doing much for me. So it's with great pleasure that recent posts on the Small Keryo Pente board and here by other players have been along the lines of how I argue and feel about the game. Especially good players like you who he might listen to. I liked the way you pointed out how some games between the two of you went.
I happen to like Keryo Pente more than Pente. I've only played Keryo Pente on a 13 X 13 board without the move restriction. Keryo Pente is a newer version of Pente than Pente with the move restriction(Pro Pente). Maybe when it's played on 19 X 19 board the first player still has an advantage, I don't know. I like the 13 X 13 version without the move restriction. Regardless of how big the first to move player's advantage is. As Dmitri might tell you or you'll read in the postings, I've even argued for a smaller board to see how a game would play(10 X 10 or 9 X 9). Anyway, these guys have always played Keryo Pente on the 19 X 19 with the move restriction. Then they have it within themselves to dictate to us people that like playing on the 13 X 13 game that we have to have the move restriction. A version they don't play and are against! Now those of us that like it can't play it here. Back to ol' It's Your Turn, I suppose.

Dmitri, we all know why you're singled out!