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Ok. I was asking because his account is still on the site, and there is no clear indication of him being banned.
Could it be that it is a password forgotten or similar issue ?

Maybe you can try contacting the admins.

I think it depends on the level of the players, but I agree that sometimes it feels unbalanced.
I would be curious on statistics of win based on side and player elo.

How do you know ? Did he communicate with you ?

This point has been brought up an inordinate amount of times, but the admins don't seem to have any intention to act on it. In two players competitive games it is normal to concede when no possibility to win, even in tournament. I've raised a bug report and a few forum posts on this topic but to no ...

The big version is Shogi, so I don't think there would be any problem with licensing, unless you specifically want the cute animals.

To me there should be only win/lose as in chess or draughts. Points differential is a bad tie-breaker in Strands. Somebody's strategy could be connecting two groups. In case of failure the two groups are small. Somebody else could try to grow only one group even if there is no chance. When he loses ...

Patchwork is a great game for competitive play. However some initial random setups offer an "insurmountable" advantage between skilled players (let's say 600+). This is an issue on Arena: losses to strong but not top10 players could decide who wins the season. My suggestion would be an op...

Well I would not call it 'not extremely rare'. I think in my 5k games I've managed to do it 3 times. I think it depends also on playing style. I've done 3/4 times in about 600 games, but I tend to use more "real estate" than "cash". Also a couple of times I did some objectively ...

Just give a komi of a few points.

Filling the board is not extremely rare, but this week is the first time where I won one 1x1 patch but there was no space to place it.

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