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Alright, I'mma call it "Olympic Rings" as well since that's a much better name than "Trapezoid".

I'm not from the 2000's generation of YINSH players, so I'm quite oblivious (but very curious) to what the "meta" of YINSH was and is.

Ooo! KivasFajo, in your time playing YINSH in those days, what kind of openings did elite level players like to do? Was mostly edge? Mostly center? Someone on BGA was also from those old days, and I was told elite level players tend to play the edge. But... I also read a BoardGameGeek thread where s...

I get told the opposite. I was told the strongest players play the Edge, and that I am the weirdo here. As for people trying to mess with the opening, many have tried. But it's not so easy. Here's an example of a recent game I had where my opponent allocated 2 of their rings while the remaining thre...

Below is a game I played as First Player (White) against an AI from https://temhelk.itch.io/yinsh I get my butt kicked by this AI if I max out its thinking time, so I only gave it a 1-second thinking time. I also know that another player on here was also able to beat the AI (with 1 second thinking t...

As the moves are getting logged on the right-hand side for me, the timestamp is hard to see with the grey background.

It's grey text on a grey background.

Perhaps the color of the text could be changed to be visible?

One suggestion I have is for there to be a sound effect when pieces are placed on the board and when markers are flipped.

You will have to teach me how to set up an unrated game then.

In Kaepo's post, I believe it was mentioned that games against the AI would affect ELO.

Is there a way to play a game that isn't rated?

I have permission from BoardGameArena to make use of an AI model that I trained specifically for the game of Boop known as AlphaBoop - https://boardgamearena.com/player?id=95583038 Naturally, a human must play behind the scenes to make the moves for it. I named it AlphaBoop as inspired by AlphaGo - ...