Richard's Play By Email Server

Richard's Play By Email Server is a computer 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
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
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.
Zertz: The third game in the Gipf sequence. A sort of hexagonal variant of checkers in which both players use the same pieces.
- Zertz+11: Zertz on a bigger board.

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