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I'm as much in the dark as Ken is...I play a few games there (ItsYourTurn),
and have had no trouble until this extended outage.  If I hear anything
reliable I'll mention it here.

Glenn Overby
Editor

About the 'vanished' Its Your Turn web site: Since we can't contact the
site to ask what's going in, does anyone know if they have any 'sister
site' or other related site who might know what's going on? Maybe someone
even knows someone in charge at Its Your Turn and can call them (or email
them some separate way) to get an answer. Does anyone know where they are
based?
I've used the Its Your Turn site regularly for over a year, and there were
a couple of times where they had server problems and were down for a
couple hours, but nothing like this. This outage is in its third day now,
with no warning. Maybe they got hacked into or something, who knows?

Its Your Turn update - The its your turn site is back! This is as of about
1 pm Friday afternoon Central US time. There was no explanation on the
site (that I could find) as to what happened. My games seemed to be as I
left them Wednesday (but with no adjustments for time limits).
If anybody knows anything about happened, I think there's a lot of users
of that site wondering.

I confirm Ken's statement...with the added note that those of us who play
fast (28-hour) tournaments saw every game time out.  :(

More on 'Its Your Turn' site outage. Yes, there is an item of explantion on
their site about what happened, but its a little hard to find. You have to
click 'Message Boards' (left column) and then News from the next screen.
Apparently there was a big ice storm in North Carolina that created
mega-problems for several days and huge power outages. Even after several
days, the folks in NC are still not out of the woods and still battling
big problems and continued power outages. So the problems with the web
site are totally understandable! Up until now, I had no idea where the
site was based - now I know it's North Carolina!

They're working hard on making everyone whole.  This is a brief excerpt
from a long explanatory message apparently sent to subscribers in
general...

---begin excerpt---
Any timed-out tournament and non-tournament games since midnight Thursday
will be restored automatically. Also, we will suspend tournament timeouts
until midnight on Tuesday. 

If you are a current member, we will add 2 days to your membership. Please
email [email protected] from the email address registered on your
account, and we will take care of this for you. Please allow a few days
for us to get to this request, since we are frantically trying to address
all the issues relating to this downtime.
---end excerpt---

Stephen Pribut's Rec.games.chess.misc FAQ are actually located at
http://www.drpribut.com/sports/chessfaq.html .

The page http://www.chessvariants.com/xiangqi.html gves the rules of
XiangQi, and works perfectly well with InternetExplorer.  But if I try to
read it with Netscape4, it automatically forwards me to the page 
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thechessvariantp&l=st1&search=chinese
chess&mode=books&p=15&o=1, which does not exist.

Nick

Hello to all at Chess Variants,
                               The 2004 edition of the Chesmayne Chess
Dictionary is now back on-line at:-

           http://chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net 


Yours sincerely,

Raymond Reid.

here is a variant of chess:

http://membres.lycos.fr/laurentduboislaurent/zzchess.htm

playing chess on a draught board with the addition of a piece: the
'zig-zag', which can move as many cases as one wants horizontally or
vertically zigzagging.


Cordially
Laurent Dubois
http://www.laurentdubois.com

This is really freaky! I was taught a game by my uncle about thirty years
ago (im 43 now) called Martian Chess. The pieces were a Freezer
(upside-down rook), chamelion (bishop), coordinator (knight), long leaper
(queen), retractor (king) and Flanker (pawn), but all at the same time, no
normal pieces. It was one of the best games I ever played and I even taught
my kid and he thinks it's cool too.

This is the first time I've ever seen anyone that ever heard of this
stuff in my entire life. What a mind-blower!

Sincerely,
Steve

The rating is for the new layout of the page.

One thing I find annoying about it, though, is the way the page instantly
jumps to a certain spot whenever you click on anything.  In my opinion, it
would be easier to navigate if it just sat where it was.