Re: [pbmserv-dev] Tichu

[Mark Ballinger <mballinger@ballinger.cx>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:19:02AM -0700, Mark Ballinger wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:14:23AM -0700, Lyman Hurd wrote:
> > Personally I echo the sentiment of "$^%$^ no" on
> > poker...
> > 
> > Tichu on the other hand...
> 
> Tichu would be cool, but it's not public domain, and how do we handle out-of-turn bombs?

WooHoo!  Here's a reply from my email to Abacus Spiele about putting Tichu on the server:

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:33:48PM +0200, Fata Morgana wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> the answer is yes.
>
> We are happy to see how many people play Tichu. There are already some
> Online-Communities playing Tichu (like brettspielwelt.de) and I think we
> could also allow a (non-commercial) PBeM Version of the game.
>
> (We are negotiationg about a commercial computer-version of Tichu, but even
> if this will be published it should not stop all the non-commercial versions
> of the game.)
>
> Therefore: feel free to continue.
>
> Thank you
> Lukas Merlach
>
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