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I removed the center HTML-entity from my post but that doesn't solve the problem.
I wonder what is wrong.... Later i will try to remove my message to see if this corrects the problem....
for this board. I know most everyone reads this board and I'm just trying to find someone that might understand or know the Polish Language. If u do could u pls PM me So I can ask aabout some words I read on a sign . Moderator pls don't get to mad at me and TYVM BK board for theto ask my
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Eriisa: well unfortunatly i started playing gammon in the clockwise direction so was used to it till i started playing here and would love to be able to have that option for gammon games like on other sites any chance of this happening FENCER
pauloaguia: yes i understand this but on some other game sites you have the option of which way you want to travel round the board clock wise or anticlock wise
Anencephal: . . . And here in Greece where Backgammon is a little more inside our DNA compared to other countries we play both ways with no problems.... But clockwise or anti-clockwise? It doesn't matter. Human brain has he ability to adapt with no problems! You just have to try.....
. . . If chickens can play tic-tac-toe and draw against humans, then i find it ridiculous if human brains complain about not being able to think things mirrored....
whopper: I agree with this skepticism. When playing on a real board in person with someone one player goes clockwise and the other player goes counterclockwise. It is only with the computer do both people think they're going the same direction. Kind of like having the declaring hand in Bridge always played from the south seat in the newspaper, but that's not how it is in real games. I don't see any reason for not allowing the player pick the direction of travel for his pieces, but I also don't see why it would matter in the first place. It doesn't change the game, does it? Is there not a standardized direction of travel for the checkers? As in a book on Backgammon? Why not adopt that and have them go in that direction? Since the current way of notating the games is 1 to 24 instead by the table they're in, I would imagine that having the 6 to 1 inner table in the same place for both players would take care of it. If me, it's on the lower right and my pieces would go counterclockwise. If my opponent, it'd be on the upper left of my screen and my pieces would go clockwise toward the 19 to 24 inner table which would be on my side of the board in the lower left of the screen.
Walter Montego: That's how it worked here (one player clockwise and the other one counterclockwise). After protests and complaits of the majority of backgammon players on BK I decided to make it as it is now. From my point of view, I see no difference if the pieces move one way on another - it's just another view of the same position, nothing else.
Walter Montego: Actually, if the two opponents are sitting one in front of the other both will be moving their pieces in the same direction. In this case, you'll move them anti-clockwise (for instance) and it will look like your opponent is moving clockwise, though, in his/her point of view, he's moving anti-clockwise as well.
However, if the two opponents are sitting side by side, they will indeed have to move each one in opposite directions.
This said, it doesn't matter to me which way the board goes, just as long as it stays the same during the whole game
pauloaguia: You'd better think about what you just said about clockwise and how it looks to each player. That's like saying we have a clock laying face up between us with you at the 6 and me at the 12 and the second hand appears to move in opposite directions! My clockwise movements will look the same no matter where the observer is placed if he's looking down upon the game. How can we be moving them in the same direction? That's not Backgammon as I know it.
BIG BAD WOLF: Very strange. In the page source, the middle cell where the graphs should appear shows up as an empty "<td></td>". Many seem to have this problem, but many don't. It isn't caused by the browser, it doesn't occur in general, but if it happens to you, it always happens to you. Must be a curse..
last week or the week before that i once had a graph not showing though . i didnt investigate further at that time .. and i now have no problems . not sure what caused it .. i am not even sure on which computer or with browser i was viewing :)