OK Walter, you are not interested in debating, i can see that. Debating involves addressing specifis statement by theo ther party or parties, and you have repeatedly failed to do so.

So I have a simple question to the people who CLAIM that Gary and I and Brain King are reducing their fun by having the restriction:

The question is: HOW, SPECIFICALLY, are we reducing your fun? Please SUPPORT your claim more than just "Because it just IS."

Second: If you are not a serious player who doesn't care about what the opening rules are, THEN HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY CARE ABOUT WHAT THE OPENING RULES ARE???

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a blatant contradiction! Follow the lines of the argument:

1) I don't care what the rules are
2) I care what the rules are

ALso, please note that the following justification is also invalid:

1) The game with the restriction is less fun because
2) the restriction makes it complicated and I like things to be simple.


This is invalid because the presmise (number 2) is FALSE. The restriction is NOT complicated, it is very simple. What possible misinterpretation cuold there be of a rule that is clear as day?

The restriction is less compicated than turning on the computer and logging onto the internet, so I fail to understand the supposed complexity of this restriction.


NOW, my solution!!!!!!!!!

Keep the 4 versions the way they are now, so that web TV users AND other users can play the CORRECT version of pente.

THEN, reinstate the small boards WITHOUT the restriction, for those who wish to lpay the INCORRECT variant, BUT---- BUT------- CHANGE the name of this version to something that does not remotely resemble "pente," because it is not pente.

suggestions include: five stones, stones, 5inLine or capture, and I am sure there are many other possibilities.

To facilitate this change, the current game "5inLine" should be changed to "go-Moku" wihch it basically is, but with a few adjustments that could be easily made.