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| | Message text It is almost the 12th year anniversay for the site from its beta. May be it is a good time to write down my understanding of the site history.
The very original idea of YPI is a private site for a group of 10 people only day back to 2003 March. I don't have the screen shot, but thanks to web archive we have one on 2003 June.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030608081513/http://www.youplay.it/play/main.asp
Nick turns the private game engine to public. In less than 1 month hundred of user registered because of free Bluemax. The 400th user is AceMaster. At first only Cartagena and Bluemax is available. For the kindness of the author, Nick has the formal approval of Bluemax author Phil Hall to grant the online bluemax copyright, with only one rules. The site can't charge/make money from user's games play. This philosophy follows since then.
In 2004, King Me!(Viva Il Re!) is also available and also I join this year.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040202033659/http://www.youplay.it/play/main.asp
In 2005, WS&IM beta version is introduced, and also VAMPRING, the very original games on YPI, thanks for Fineturno
http://web.archive.org/web/20050204075258/http://youplay.it/play/main.asp
2007 is a remarkable year as League system introduced.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070526142612/http://www.youplay.it/play/main.asp
2008 With help from BlueDragon WS&IM is available in Full rules in Beta. Also available in simplified version in Main site/League.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080704143444/http://www.youplay.it/play/main.asp
You can notice that there is a interesting statistic show that average BM games duration time for different player,noticed that for players more than 6 players. Games time didn't prolonged much as the introduction of automove.
By 2010, Gonzaga, the 2nd original YPI games is developed (thanks for Fineturno again!). The whole site is moved to a more stable server.
2012 the site is sold to Jim.
And that's the very brief history of the site, I know it is far from complete. May you have any comment and story. Feel free to add in 
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