Fencer: As Mel Brooks said, "It's good to be the king." lol

This should prove to be an interesting discussion - about limiting discussion. The mere fact that you are saying you will have a discussion is quite refreshing. I have come from a site where sometimes things just are "done" without discussion. Even if you don't agree with some on the site, it is nice that you are willing to discuss it.

Hrqls: I am not sure what they hide. Once again, it depends on how you handle the threads. You can leave it so that the Tree is always open. Then you can use your glance - if you want. It makes it easier to glance by a whole thread if you are unconcerned about regional flags, but are looking for a thread about new games for example.

whatdidyousay: I think it's Fencer's version of "You can have any colour you like as long as it's black"

whatdidyousay: not hiding stuff on purpose .. but usually a thread starts about something .. which is the main subject .. and then slightly changes into a slightly different subject .. not too much difference to justify a new tree .. but still something different :)

i do agree though .. lately when i come online in the morning i saw 200+ new posts on the general board .. and that was just done in about 10 hours of my night .. i then read the few first of the new ones .. and the last ones .. a tree would be easier that way .. but still it would be easy to miss something you could now stumble on accidently :)

i have been on many boards which have the tree layout .. and somehow i didnt like it .. but it might just be me who might be old fashioned ;)

volant: If you mean like GT and IYT systems...I agree, I hate those sytems, and just cant seem to follow a discussion

I much prefer this board system

Hi,

I think it would be an asset to invite the whole of your fellowshop for a tourney with only one invitation...I mean, not sending out like 40 of them...

Apparently there is more support for non-threaded (non-tree outline) discussion boards. I prefer the tree, but I can live without it.

Summertop: Hmmm, I support the threated db's as well...So much easier to navigate.

wekke: I've seen good threaded db formats (UI) and bad ones. "IF" implemented, I hope it is well done (like the rest of BK).

Summertop: Have to agree on that...This is far the best gamesite I've been on...

I am deeply offended by that last post. I have many friends who are lumberjacks, and only a few of then are transvestites.

Rex Nihilo: He's a lumberjack, and he's OK!

Where's Monty when you need him, Rex?

But no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition... and here I am.

Back on topic please gents!

Though, word, deed, and action...

4 counts of off-topicness!!

Rex Nihilo: Be warned - I've added the comfy chair to the list of punishments...

ALBATROSS, ALBATROSS

I have been playing some battle boats...I wonder what the game would be like if each shot hit the nine (actual shot plus neighboring spots) locations...kind of like atomic chess. OR..a shot could hit 5 spots...the one targeted and the ones above, below, and to the sides.

Just thinking out loud....well, hey, at least I am "Trying" to think

Vikings: What does it taste like?

What about an online news letter... Letting people know about this site? Letting people know about the game and the rules here?

You mean something like this?

pauloaguia: Completely different... Top heading has Brainking.com... Sorta like a 4 page news paper...

Summertop: sounds intersting and quite fun, it wqould definatly make you think about where placing teh boats etc more than i already does

furbster: and would make a fast game.

but the first move would have a great advantage i think

i think you'd have to give the second player a turn if he is destroyed. If (s)he destroys the enemy it's a tie. Thus taking away the first turn advantage.

you could reduce the size of the blast by having a starting point of the shot? ie:your destroyer

shots coming from the battleship explode 5 places..down to those coming from the cruiser only 1 square.

Fencer.....

It drives me crazy not knowing what color frog my opponent has gotten in froglet and anti-froglet....so I constantly have to go over to the game history section to find out the last move. Is there anyway to somehow display what color frog your opponent has captured?

Thanks

"Corner Chess" to "FRC/Corner (chess)"
because it´s for both.
Thanks. :-)

SueQ: Yes, later.
Dresden: The game boards will be reduced and combined to a smaller total amount anyway.

Dear Fencer,

My actual subscription end the 3th February.

As I am only interested in Shogi, I wish to know if you plan to program the Shogi during this year.

Best wishes,
Paul.

Spirou: Definitely this year.

Fencer: Aaaaahhh! Congratulations for your decision and thank you :-)))

to Dresden:

Corner Chess and Fortress Chess are best to be compared with special types of Shuffle Chess because of the missing castling ability. Smirf could handle those and FRC too. Thus it could be accepted to join their boards in a kind of FRC Compatibility Group

I would like that in a more obvious colour...I overlook my own notes in every game, since it has almost the same background as the main page....

and it needs to be above the game board.. :-)

Sumerian: Castleing is a feature of FRC..unless I misunderstood your post.

to bwildman: Of course castling is valid in FRC / Chess960. But because an FRC engine should support all valid FRC-FEN positions it automatically would support all variants without castlings, too. Some engines are limited to support a maximum of 16 pieces a color. But Smirf is able to have the complete board filled with pieces. Thus it could support a lot of variants based on 8x8 standard or 10x8 extended Capablanca piece set. May be it would be better to separate Fortress Chess, because it has more than 16 pieces a color?

Sumerian: sorry,I dont use engines

Computers! Maybe it's too much for humans to know all 960 starting position, but that sure doesn't stop a computer. Especially nowadays. For people, that's three orders of magnitude. Almost like making the start of the game an extra one and a half moves to think ahead before the game starts. This will work with people and the Chess will be more on how well you can move the pieces and how they work together, instead by rote and memorization. Computers on the other hand can start with all 960 positions and start working things out way in advance and have nice book ready for when the game starts. With the time it takes on the internet, even more so. This FRC Chess 960 is just a temporary solution for computer aided games, but I think it will work quite well with peple.

to bwildman: No reason for that. Because I am just about to write such an engine, I tend to use such criteria to characterize variants. It is clear that most people would use very different approaches to group or separate chess variants.

I think it's time to take this to a Chess discussion board... Thanks..

Walter Montego: I'm taking this to the Chess variants page.

If computers continue to improve as they have been how long will it take for three orders of magnitude to be made up? 15 years?

Moved to Chess variants page.

Ummmm. Appalling annoying window of faces tempting me to wax bannable again.

Can we have a zoology board please.

ughaibu: go to settings page and check out the java script tag. You can Activate interactive smiley window to (off) (mouse over) or (mouse click).

Okay, thanks. I'll try that.

If that request was already asked in the past I apologize.

I wish, when a red number is joined to the "Main page" saying I have to play a move, a little sound warn me. When I read a book or watch the TV,waiting a move, that could be very comfortable.

that could also be really annoying lol