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David Short wrote on Mon, Oct 6, 2003 04:37 AM UTC:
I just noticed that Ironlance and Saulius Miliunas are playing a game
of Doublechess on the PBeM Game Courier system. I want to remind them
and everyone else know that Doublechess can be played by email on
Richard's PBM Server --- go to http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv
and click on the tutorial link and list of commands to learn how to
sign up for a free userid and password there, and to familiarize yourself
with syntax used for sending moves and other commands in the subject
line of emails to the server at pbmserv@gamerz.net while the body of
emails are used for sending comments to your opponent. I will probably
be starting up a new doublechess tournament on Richard's Play By Email
server some time next year, and new players are always welcome to join.
I hope that my plug for this site is not meant to be seen as a slight
to the PBeM Game Courier system. The Game Courier enables people to 
play many games which would probably be too difficult to design engines
for, for unlike the Game Courier which allows players to move ANY piece
to ANY square on ANY move, regardless of whether it is legal or not,
and does not verify whether a move is legal or not, playing games on
Richard's PBM server does verify whether moves are legal or not and
sends out error messages when illegal moves are sent. I think the
two compliment each other and anyone who enjoys playing games on
Game Courier should also check out the dozen or so chess variants
(including chess itself) along with the numerous other strategy
games that can be played on Richard's PBM server.

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