Board Game Arena

Would BGA consider implementing for all games a strict timer option, where when a player's timer reaches zero, they automatically lose immediately. This is how online chess is played. In both blitz and classical time settings, when zero is reached it is an automatic loss. A player is responsible for...

Didn't notice those violations yet. Are they fixed already? No, the rules haven't been changed on this site. I think most of us have gotten used to playing with this variant, but it still seems it would be better to make the small corrections so we are playing officially. The rule that impacts the ...

Didn't notice those violations yet. Are they fixed already? No, the rules haven't been changed on this site. I think most of us have gotten used to playing with this variant, but it still seems it would be better to make the small corrections so we are playing officially. The rule that impacts the ...

There are two rule violations in this implementation of Russian Railroads. One is quite rare in actual gameplay, but the other does impact strategy. I can see on the bug reporting system that at least one of them has been confirmed as a violation since 2017 with no correction. How can we encourage B...

Who can we ask to start working on this? The site administrators?

I do not like arena mode, and I do not think it is a good thing. Chess players do care very much about ELO at the top levels, it is an important mechanism for evaluating your opponent, so the statement in the original post that ELO does not matter in real-life competitions is silly. In games where I...