Gold Token 'Head to Head '

[Alan Millhone]

Hello all on line gamers:

Need your opinion, observations, etc. for the GT 'head to head' . You can either post on the forum or email me with a PM or simply email me : millhone@wirefire.com

Your input is important and needed.

Sincerely:
Alan Millhone, President
American Checker Federation

[kiwinurse]

What is Goldtoken "head to head " Alan?

[Alan Millhone]

Hi Jan:

Where you play a game move by move rather than the 'turn based' GT has always had. Akin to the old MSN Kings where live games were played by 2 players.

Regards:
Alan

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Where you play a game move by move

I play Anglo-American checkers today on Kurnik - http://www.kurnik.org

[Pedro Saavedra]

In my honest, nonpartisan opinion, Goldtoken is a very bush league gaming site. I think the only real thing it might have going for it is the administrator's responsiveness. Other then that, it's doing what other sites are doing such as Brainking, IYT, now Kurnik.

I do not give my opinion of HTH because I like turn-based play. Some of the best turn-based players I know play in GT and in IYT (Fortman played in the latter). Now I do not like some features in GT and like some that IYT does not have. GT has 3-move, 11-man ballot and several variants (International, Brazilian, Pool and Russian) for those who like them. And it has a diversity of games which one is free to ignore if one plays only checkers. I can do without the hoopla and aspects of the club structures and with a more regular tournament schedule.

What GT does it does well. Josh, you seem to prefer real time over turn-based and some of us like the opposite. The question was asked about HTH and those who have tried it should answer. I just would not criticize it for what it does not want to be, for by the same token I could be critical of some real time sites because they have no turn-based play. There is room for both in the net just like there has always been room for correspondence and crossboard play.

Pedro / vatecubano / Guanarteme

[john reade]

Turn based means you get more time for your moves? Head to head means you must move quickly?

Is it possible someone can think of something to call them which says what they actually are?

All checkers games are turn based and head to head.

[liam stephens]

Hi John,

A turn-based game is a game where the game flow is partitioned into well-defined and visible parts, called turns or rounds. For example, when the game flow unit is time, turns represent units of time, like years, months, weeks, or days. A player of a turn-based game is allowed a period of analysis (sometimes bounded, sometimes unbounded) before committing to a game action, ensuring a separation between the game flow and the thinking process, which in turn presumably leads to more optimal choices. Once every player has taken his or her turn, that round of play is over, and any special shared processing is done. This is followed by the next round of play. The opposite of turn-based is called real-time.

A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) that is turn-based. The phrase turn-based is used to distinguish such games from real-time strategy games.

[chipschap]

A simple way to put it is that "turn based" is similar to correspondence play, and "head to head" is similar to cross-board play. Although "turn based" and "head to head" are indeed imprecise, those are the generally used terms in online play.

[john reade]

My complaint is that the words don't say that!

[liam stephens]

In the words of an old song:

"It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it."