Life In 19x19

Active turn based can be tricky because we allow a variety of time controls but I do have some good metrics. Perhaps looking at the number of correspondence games started in a given month. iirc we define that as games that have an average move time of over 3600s (1 hour) calculated based on the time ...

I'm very sorry to hear that, I'm one of the developers of the new OGS and we were originally the Nova developers. If you don't mind me asking, what did it lose that you miss so much? We're constantly working on the site fixing bugs and adding features that our users ask for. We try to be good ...

we've had dozens of live games just this morning alone. I think part of the problem was that OGS just didn't have an interface to play live games and nova didn't have the users. now that we've solved both of those problems it becomes less of an issue.

you almost can't pick up a live challenge right ...

We've had a lot of live games running this weekend and at the end of last week, but since we are a fairly new server we obviously aren't swamped with live games.

My advice, until we are better established is to create a challenge (you can set your parameters for who can accept). Or come join us in ...

You can even upload your own SGF files into your library on Nova

We've tried to strike a balance with handicaps in tournaments specifically so that you don't end up playing games with tons of stones.

Note that our pairing algorithm will try to pair players of even strength, especially in the first round.

Players with the same number of tournament points will ...

Greetings!

We've been beta testing tournaments on the Nova.gs site for the last couple of months and it's finally time for us to share some with you.

We've created 3 site-wide correspondence tournaments to help kick things off, so there is plenty of competition for all skill levels:

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@BobC: Somehow I think Dank might have been a little higher than 30k

That's no good, does refreshing the page fix that? What browser are you using?

Come join us in chat too, if you feel inclined!

Thought I'd post a few screen grabs.

Here's a look at the main screen showing only your games:



Here's a live game going on: