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After a break for a yearm we are back again.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 2 March.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 2 March.
Signups are now open for the 5th PBMServer LoopTrax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 4 December.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 12 March.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 20 February.
Signups are now open for the 4th PBMServer LoopTrax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 1 December.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 29 February.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 10 March.
Signups are now open for the 3rd annual PBMServer LoopTrax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 1 November.
Jul 25,2018
David Smith, inventor of Trax has died
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It is with sadness that I have to report that David Smith died this morning (25/7/2018) in hospital at 1am NZST at age 91. David has left a considerable legacy in terms of Trax, and many other games. #65 of 73
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 3 March.
Signups are now open for the 2nd annual PBMServer LoopTrax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 1 November.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 26 February.
Signups are now open for the inaugural PBMServer LoopTrax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 1 November.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 28 February.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 28 February.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 28 February.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament.
Signups have been extended. Pools will now be allocated and the games commence on 10 March.
Signups have been extended. Pools will now be allocated and the games commence on 10 March.
Congratulations to Ken Balakrishnan, winner of this year's annual email tournament. Well done Ken, you are up to four years in a row!
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 3 March.
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 26 March.
Congratulations to Ken Balakrishnan, winner of this year's email tournament. Well done Ken, that's two in a row!
Signups are now open for this year's PBMServer Trax tournament. Pools will be allocated and the games commence on 1 March.
Congratulations to Michael Sargent for winning the 2009 Candidate's Tournament, and to Donald Bailey for winning the 2009 Challenge Match to retain the title. There were some tough games in the final!
While the last few games are still to be completed, Ken Balakrishnan is the winner of this year's email tournament. Congratulations Ken!
The 2009 World Championship series of tournaments is now open for entries. Sign up before 19 July to take part in this year's premier Trax event!
Signups have opened for the annual PBMServer email Trax Tournament. Pools will be allocated and games commence on March 1.
Congratulations to Pandelis Theodosiou for winning the 2008 Candidate's Tournament, and to Donald Bailey for winning the 2008 Challenge Match to retain the title.
The 2008 World Championship series of tournaments is now open for entries. Sign up before the end of May to take part in this year's premier Trax event!
We're off to a later start this year, but signups are now open for this year's email tournament on Richard's PBeM Server.
The tournament will start on April 1.
The tournament will start on April 1.
We now have a result for the 2007 Email Tournament. dgb wins on countback from jmh.
This last week, Trax Holland have launched their new website for Dutch speakers.
We're off to a later start this year, but signups are now open for this year's email tournament on Richard's PBeM Server.
The tournament will start at Easter (7 April).
The tournament will start at Easter (7 April).
Issue 13 features two articles on Trax strategy that were originally published in the GoldToken monthly newsletter.
Congratulations to Michael Sargent for winning the 2006 Candidate's Tournament, and to Donald Bailey for winning the 2006 Challenge Match!
Sep 10,2006
Updated website
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The website has been updated to reflect the new black tiles. If you prefer the classic red tiles, you can set this in your MyTrax preferences. #39 of 73
Entries are open for the 2006 World Championship Tournament. Signup on the web entry form before the end of July to participate!
We now have a result for the 2006 Email Tournament. Congratulations to dgb.
Feb 24,2006
New Trax Variant!
#36 of 73
GoldToken.com have introduced a new Trax variant - Lucky Trax. Its the same as Trax except the tile orientation is preselected at random, and you have to play the tile in that orientation in your turn. There's also a tournament starting on the 26th that is open to guests! #36 of 73
This year's email tournament will begin on February 4, 2006. Signup now to enter.
Congratulations to Donald Bailey, winner of the 2005 World Championship Tournament.
The new black Trax tiles are now available for sale online. Order your set now for Christmas!
Congratulations to Martin Pedersen, winner of the 2005 Candidate's Touranment.
The archive of commented games has been updated so that now all of the games are in the new notation. The archive has been expanded, and now contains 300 commented games.
Boardspace have added Trax to their online games server. If there is nobody there, you can play one of their two robot players: dumbbot and smartbot.
We now have a result for the 2005 Email Tournament. Congratulations to dgb.
Entries are now being taken for this year's World Championship Tournament. Entries close on August 31.
Entries are now open for the 13th annual PBeM tournament. This will be played on Richard's PBMServer. Entries close February 14.
Trax version 5.11 has been released. It adds the 8x8 and LoopTrax variants.
Congratulations to Donald Bailey, winner of the 2004 World Championship Tournament.
Congratulations to Kevin Petrychyn, winner of the 2004 Candidate's Touranment.
The Trax LobbyBot plays 9 levels, starting from very easy through to not so easy. The LobbyBot challenges you to beat it on all 9 levels. Each time you win, you advance a level. Each time you lose, you go back a level. Are you ready for the LobbyBot challenge?
Although the games are still in progress, a winner has been found in the 2004 e-mail tournament. Congratulations to dgb!
Trax version 5.10 has been released. It enables hosting via the Trax lobby, overcoming problems with being stuck behind a firewall.
Six entries have been received for the Candidate's Tournament which is being held over the next couple of months. Good skills to each of the Candidates!
The privacy policy for Traxgame.com has now been made available on the web for your viewing.
The web view of Richard's PBeM Server Trax games has been integrated with the rest of the Trax site. You can also view LoopTrax and 8x8Trax games now - these were previously unavailable from the original viewer.
Users can now login to My Trax where you can set a few preferences. Registering with MyTrax will also allow you to participate in the Trax Forum. Watch for more features to be added to MyTrax during the coming months.
The long awaited Trax Forum is now operational. You have to sign up to MyTrax to be able to post, but anyone can read the messages.
Entries are now open for the 2004 Trax World Championship. Entries close May 31.
Entries are now open for the 12th annual PBeM tournament. Entries close February 28.
New stock of Trax tiles has arrived. Available from the Trax shop.
Congratulations to Donald Bailey, winner of the 2003 World Championship Tournament.
A new feature has been added to the PBMServer web listings: When you view a game, there is now an e-mail link that fills in the address and subject fields of your email. If you have registered your userid and password, these are also entered automatically. All you need to enter is your move and send.
Congratulations to Dan Pless, winner of the 2003 Candidate's Touranment.
Trax version 5.03 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and adds alerts to the traxgame.com lobby.
A winner has been found in the 2003 e-mail tournament. Congratulations to dgb!
The old website has been replaced with what was the beta website.
OnTrax has been reformatted for the new website.
All the old World Championship games that I could find have been added to the archives. This includes many early Candidate's Tournament games that were not on the original website.
Traxgame.com now has its own lobby for online TRAX play.
The long awaited DOBY 5 Trax opponent has been released. Order your copy from the shop today.
TRAX version 5.02 has been released.
Gold Token Games have added TRAX to their array of turn-based games (non-real time).