Still no rengo?

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Great idea! We’ve actually been playing Team Go in an ad hoc fashion via a forum thread, private forum messages, and private demo boards:

Playing Team Go

I think it would be interesting to play a correspondence game where each “player” was made up of a team. Each team would have a captain that is responsible for leading the team and actually playing out the moves on the board, but each team would meet to discuss and decide their moves in private, either over a private demo board, or maybe via a private group message on this forum. I think playing a game as a team could be interesting since one would get to see the thinking process of other playe…

This exercise has illustrated that it would certainly be nice if there were some supporting features to make this easier (even if full team go support could not implemented):

1. Ability to spectate other public games, e.g., by adding to your home screen and subscribing to email notifications for turn changes.
2. Somehow pinning a demo board to your home screen. We’re using demo boards for discussion.
3. Sharing Malkovic logs of an ongoing game with other players.

Of course, integrated Rengo/Team Go support would be even better, but these features might be easier/more feasible and still be very helpful for people playing Rengo/Team Go in ad hoc manner in the meantime.

I guess another different between classic Rengo vs how we’re playing Team Go is that discussion is not allowed in Rengo, while it is in Team Go.