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Roll Tide wrote: ↑07 June 2026, 19:58 Or in addition to the Reset Turn option. It'd be nice to be able to undo the last card draw or tile placement.

This has already been considered and rejected:

viewtopic.php?t=38260

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=130002

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=136327

True, but given that it already exists as an expansion to the game, it seems possible to get that approval. I looked at that link. They have a 36-card deck with instructions to reshuffle after 31 cards are dealt. That would be terrible for the game especially online where it's easier to track the c...

Has this issue been resolved? Perhaps in both of the tournament tables mentioned in this thread, the games in question were on the same server (maybe server #10). You can see the server number in the full URL of the table. Then, it might have just been one server had a bit of an issue which the BGA ...

Thanks. ChatGPT pointed me to this thread from 2017, which includes the "just subtract 1300" formula: https://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewtopic.php?t=10974 (also https://boardgamearena.com/news?id=319 ). ChatGPT noted that if someone's Elo under the old system was, say, 1380, then their E...

Ah, very interesting! How are you accessing the JSON?

If I understand correctly, then there must be a simple formula to convert from ancient Elo to modern Elo. Are you able to say what the formula is?

11.3.1 During play the players are forbidden to use any notes, sources of information or advice , or analyse any game on another chessboard. [italics mine] That seems wonky. I mean, what is the player supposed to do? The player is supposed to call for a ruling before taking further action in the ga...

If in a real life Chess tournament between grandmasters, a person in the crowd shouted a winning move to one of the players, and the player had not realized they could make that move and then proceeded to win thanks to the advice, what would happen? FIDE Laws of Chess https://handbook.fide.com/chap...

After the changes, in the tournament with playing hours, the time per player is no longer reduced, so the tournament ends up lasting twice as long. https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=209956 (currently 31 net upvotes) https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=213493 (currently 1 net upvote) https://boardgame...

See https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=152830

I've never heard it referred to as "the colored rock rule".

I'm pretty sure that only booted ties for multi-player elimination use the seniority rule - as in, if a tournament is setup with 4p games where top 2 advance, and 1 player is booted from a game, the other three "tie" for first. The booted player is eliminated, along with the user with the...