Lobby Guide

The lobby shows who is logged in, and allows you to play or spectate in games. It may not be obvious, but most of the features in the lobby
are clickable. The basic flow is that you either join a room where someone else has set up a game, or select an empty room, configure it,
and start your own game.

Select the type of game you want to play	If you are looking for a particular game, click here and select a game. This will advertise to everyone else in the lobby which game you want to play, but it doesn't directly do anything else.
Send to all, or a single player	Chat messages can be sent to everyone in the lobby, or privately to a single player you select here.
Send a line of chat	Send a line of chat to the players in the lobby.
Set the room type	There are several room types, the most important are Play Games - rooms where you can actually play a game Unranked Games - rooms where you can play games that do not affect your rankings. Review Games - rooms where you can replay games from the archives.
Click to Start a game	When enough players are waiting to start a game, click here to actually launch the game. Only the person who set up the game, and "owns the room" can start the game. For games "in progress", this button will say "spectate", you can click to watch the game being played.
Click to take a seat	Click on an empty seat to wait for the game to start. In games with human opponents, this also selects the starting player or color you will play. In games with robot opponents, the starting player is randomized.
Game being played or planned	The middle column show what games are in progress. You can click to scroll the games list to see the room.

Lobby Options	You can turn off sound, turn off lobby chat, globally prevent invitations to play.
Current GMT	using GMT is the most reliable way to agree on times to play tournament games.
More Help	Some short help videos, which cover about the same material as this text page.

Other Lobby Procedures

You can close the lobby without affecting games in progress, but you must keep the original browser window open and pointing to the original login page.
Ranked robot games are stored in the server, so you can abandon them any time and get back to them later. In that case the button which normally says "play robot" will say "rejoin robot".
You can rejoin games against human players if you crash out, as long as either the other player or one of the spectators did not crash.
You can resume games which were interrupted by all the players leaving, accidentally or otherwise. Simply set up a new game of the same type, with the same players, and Resume will replace Start

Guide to Lobby Features

Other Lobby Procedures