Czuch Czuckers: Should I have challenged th computer?

pgt: no, because the computer probably does not use words that arent in the OSPD....


I would think that a scrabble game here could give us a choice of which dictionary we would use in any particular game? If you wanted to play with words only contained in the oxford standard dictionary, well that would be fine!

Vikings, emmett: How about the Team stairs start ?

Czuch Czuckers: how about Larousse, or Robert? they're the standard french ones :)

My point is, have a look at the upper right part of the screen, you'll see (currently) 16 little rectangles, 15 of which represent good reasons why this kind of game will be very, very difficult to implement on this site.

MadMonkey: why not both

My internet connection is not reliable but I would like to be able to play games still on brainking.

It would be nice if you could make a windows application that could buffer the games I have to make a move on and those I have made a move on and in the background keep trying to download new games and submiting my moves back to the site.

This way even if I don't have an internet connection I can still play until I have played on all games that were my turn to play on last time I had an internet connection.

Vikings: Yes, would have been nice to start the new year with some Team Tournies. Saying that, the others havent even got to round 2 yet.

I can't wait for the stairs, we can have challenges running all the time then. Like we do now, but they will count for something. I did think about a League to start with, but will take alot to sort out i think after chatting to a couple of people.

grenv: I couldn't agree with you more. And it is pretty obvious that people do look them up from what I have seen on other sites. The only way I would even think about playing is if it were a 1 hour game.

rabbitoid: Then we'll have to create 16 language mutations of the game. However, I am not sure if it is possible to play in Chinese.

rabbitoid: BTW, proper names are not legal plays in any language variation of scrabble ')

pgt:

Its Alaskan 

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ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: Well I suppose I will just have to admit a vocabulary deficiency. (Actually for scrabble it's not as much use as one might think, because you still need a "U".)

I have some ponds with less than a day per move. On my main page they show as having 0 day per move when, in fact, some of them are 23h or 18h permove. Could the value be displayed correctly, please. That is, days AND hours?

When you look up a particular game to see what tournaments include it, I suggest that there is no point showing tourns where the game is already running.
Please could we see games where we may join up.

Fencer: Pretty please, before the next lot of Team Tournaments start could we have a 'Move and go to next Team Match game'

Fencer: Just an easy silly thing, but its very annoying.
Could you move the link to 'Switch to RTE' or 'Switch to plain text' to the right hand side of the page please. When the site(or connection) goes a bit slow and you scroll down happily clicking for the Text box to type in, you tend to hit that link, then have to wait for the page to reload again. It can get very annoying

MadMonkey: Click the right hand side of the text box and you cannot miss.

Fencer: Now that means moving the mouse, rather than just the wheel

MadMonkey:Lazy Monkey!

I request that, on the team tournaments page, there be made a column listing the fellowships that won each finished tournament. I looked under finished tournaments, and it only really has the name of the tournament, the number of teams that participated, and the type of game. The value of having a column naming the fellowship that won is that it gives us more incentive for playing in these tournaments, and it helps us to glance at the list of finished tournaments and see how all the fellowships are doing in this regard.
Maybe we could replace the "days per move" column on the Finished Tournaments list with a column entitled "Fellowship That Won"...

Marfitalu: The tournament table already shows all games (links). What difference do you suggest?

I guess I would like to see a clearly visible way of telling how all of the fellowships have done in tournaments against each other. I think it is more comprehensible on one page (anywhere). For each tournament on the Finished Team Tournaments (at the bottom) on the Team Tournaments page, you have to click on each game link to see who won. I would like the winning teams to be more visible at a glance. I just think it would be more rewarding and competetive for fellowship teams to easily see an overall view of the finished games.
Besides, the change I am requesting is probably of more interest than knowing the days per move of a tournament that is already finished.

Marfitalu: I see.

Fencer: Could we please have some way to easily see if and which Tournaments a Knight/Bishop is in. It is a nightmare when signing a Team up with Knights/Bishops in, and it tell you you dont have enough players. Then you have to go through every Team a Knight/Bishop is in to find out if it is them that is preventing it.
Either one of 2 ways i have thought of:
1) On there Profile(Fellowship page) beside there list of Teams, a dot to say they are either signed for or in a running Tournament.
OR
2) A dot(or brief message) beside there name when trying to sign the Team up for a Tournament, letting us know what they are signed for OR already playing in.
This is a major headache for Bosses & Captains

MadMonkey: Well, if someone upgrades them to Rooks, there would be no headache. But something else could be done too.

tonyh: Not an easy job to do but can be done in the future.

I am the captain of most of the teams in my fs.  The players change here and there on some of the teams and I have to look up each team individually to see who is on, how many are on the team.  It would be nice is all teams with say three or more players registered would all show up on an individual list.   This way if I'm short a player on a team or two, I can see it at a glance and deal with finding additional players.

does that make sense?  :) 

On the Statistics page, can we have a link for Fellowship Wins?
On that page, we already have BKR/Finished Games/Running Games/Top Players/Action Points... we could fit Fellowship Wins in there somewhere...

I am still BigBoss of Loop Chess Club even though I am pawn. This situation is bit problematic, there is people of who would like to join and do stuff. I think it would be better if BigBoss even if he is pawn give his status away and maybe even could read and write at his/her fellowship. Is this too much?

dameningen: If you know of someone else who would like to be BIG BOSS, you can let Fencer know and I'm sure he can make the change for you - that way the club will continue with an active BIG BOSS.

Related to your most recent blog.... Maybe it would be better, when you add a new "move and go to" option, that that option would by default be added onto our list, then we can choose to remove it if we want to? As it stands now, these new options a have to be added, and sometimes we may miss when a new one is added and not ever realize it is available to us. But by having the default add it to our list, then we will see every time one is added, and then make our choice to keep it or not. Thanks!

Czuch Czuckers: I would rather it not be added by default - so it does not force me to keep removing the options.

Normally the options are used by less people then who do not use it - so to default it not being on the list would be better for the majority of the players in my opinion.

Czuch Czuckers: You've heard the wolf.

Fencer: Next Team match, most useful addition in a while (clever Monkey), hopefully people will use it, then the Matches/Tournaments will finish quicker, then we can have more

Could it be possible to have a fellowship filter on team tournaments page? Something like the green dot, for the tournaments a player is in.

El Cid: But there is a green dot on the team tournaments page :)

Gordon Shumway: But that only shows you in which tournaments you're in, it doesn't show you, for example if you're a big boss, in which tournaments does your fellowship have teams in.

I have just noticed that there is no green dot next to the Team tournament for ataxx, which my fellowship has entered.

Are you in the team?

furbster: ah no, i withdrew myself, when a better player came along lol.

there should be a link somewhere to news for specific game types (like this one http://brainking.com/en/News?tp=93 ) without needing to guess and type the URL.

I know that if you have a green dot by the tournament means you are in it, but what does a red dot mean?
The page shows about three of them on some tournaments

Kiwiyeti: I second your request.

Pedro Martínez:

Pedro Martínez: Took a few wizeazz pills today?

Czuch Czuckers: LOL...:) BTW, I like your request too...

It means that you are not on any team that can enter that tournament, i.e. if it shows on a Chess tournament, you're not part of any chess team

It would be very helpful to be able to do a text search through all of one's private conversations. That includes in- and out- mailbox messages, but also all messages exchanged during games.
Sometimes I remember having had a nice conversation with someone about some particular subject, but cannot remember who it was, or I remember the old handle but the user now has a new one.

Of course it would also be helpful to search across all discussion boards (including fellowship boards), but that is a different search. Usually one remembers very well if somethings comes from a public board or a private conversation.

In long games of Go, it is hard for me to tell when my opponent passes a move (meaning they are ready to end the game).

Is there any way to get something near the top that say "Opponent passed last move" or something like that.

WHen the game is finished both boards should be open to see where the piece were placed...