The people who saw/experienced it may remember how it worked, and might be able to offer their perspective on the merits of the implementation.

I notice many people have "logging off" or "viewing main page" as their last action. How about we see the last game they were looking at before this action?

What would that matter? Just curious here.

To know what game they were looking at before this action....

George, why don't you mention your cool idea about "Archbishop Amazons"?

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Fencer: if you are implementing games or tournaments with prefixed first moves, would it be possible for a player to devise such games?

It would be great tool to analyze a position with some other player.

As interface to define such games, either as a text input with the BK notation for the game, or a graphic game editor.

rabbitoid: Of course. A graphic game editor will do it.

EdTrice:
I prefer having Progressive Chess first here. Or a Progressive Gothic Chess will be even more perfect!!!!!

Chessmaster1000: Interesting! I never knew by 'George' he was referring to you.

Chessmaster1000: what's progressive chess?

I hope you don't mean that our normal chess is regressive!

All Chess rules are the same except:

White makes his first move.....
Black then has 2 moves to play....
White then has 3 moves to play.....
.............
And generally every time one side play +1 moves of the last side.

If one side on a series of X moves for example, makes a check then the series stops for this player and the other side starts to make his X+1 moves.

The player that could not get out of check in his FIRST move is checkmate!

Very simple and one of the most interesting variants i know........

I guess opening a file in front of a pawn is worth sacrificing material for, as you could then make successive moves at one point, and just launch it to promote.

rabbitoid: I like that idea, as I like playing "thematic" chess tournies.

On the player list page,the country combobox should be sorted alphabetically instead of by number of members. It makes it very hard to search for a particular country that way.

pauloaguia: But the number of members is an interesting information as well :-)

Fencer: Aggreed. But I don't think it's the best sort criteria in this particular case. Unless, of course, you're Czech, American or English

fencer ,I am bilingual,how about a french board?

fencer,I want to thank you for the game espionage & it variations here.good choice.
have you ever seen this game,slay:
http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/slay.html
simple graphics....good strategy.

Can the message written when accepting an invitation show up in the message archive, under the game board?
Sometimes I send a nice message along with the invitation and never get to see what (or if) my opponent answered.

pauloaguia: I'll second that - good suggestion, and I find this frustrating too.

Yes, sure.

It used to in the past didnt it?
I have missed that too :o(

Stevie: when you accept an invite, if the first move goes to your opponent, they see your message. If you get the first move, you get the message and they never see it- I've always had to type it again with my first move. Thanks for fixing that Fencer! : )

I'd like the option to be able to have the pieces set up by the tournament director or individual players for side games, instead of randomly as in Fischer Random Chess or forced as in regular Chess. Give everyone the same set up, but a selected one. This could be handy for having a King's Gambit tournament for example. My primary use for it would be to have different 8 X 10 variant set up and see for my own and other interested players which version they like the best or just want to try. I posted recently in the Gothic Chess discussion board about switching the Kings and Chancellors at the start of the game. I think this is a very good way to start the game, but I don't have a way to see if I'm right or not.

One objection for doing this would concern ratings, but the games could be played as unrated or just grouped together as a variant set up rating. The important thing would be the fun in trying and playing the games with alternate set ups or composed tournament starts. If one particular set up caught on, it could be spun off from the variant setup section and given its own stand alone place as Janus Chess and Gothic Chess are.

Walter Montego: I plan thematic tournaments with a fixed opening defined by the tournament director. The more complicated changes (like creating other start positions of all pieces) but be explored first.

I would like to see Go as a new game here with the three size boards.

Is there any way, that it might be possible to create inhouse tourneys...What I mean is like one player taking on the fellowship in a particular game...This would be a great asset to the site...Like one player from the fellowhip taking on the rest of the fellowship...Hope this can be done...

wekke: I don't understand what you mean and how it should be different to the current functionality.

Fencer: Thanks for the quick reply Fencer...What I mean is, like me as a single player, taking on the rest of my fellowship in like backammom f.i. Might be any game though...And any player of the fellowship...It would be like me have 40 BG games agains the rest of my club...Or chsess, or whatever....

i'd like to see a video game discussion board added.

I thought of this chess game variation "voodoo chess".
very simple change from regular chess.when a pawn takes a piece.the pawn then turns into a horse piece.
this sounds strange,but we have tried it here,several games.
it does develop a lot of strategy.
also,it seems no 2 games are ever the same.
what do you think?

nobleheart: Is the horse piece different than a knight?

no it's a knight,I kept it simple so all could understand.

nobleheart: All except me apparently

And me......
I know a better game with such a similar rule:
We have a Chess game, but when a piece(not-Pawn) takes another then it takes it's power also.....For example if a Knight takes a Bishop then it becomes an Archbishop (Janus or Knight+Bishop or whatever....). If it takes a Queen then becomes a Maharajah. If a Knight captures a Knight then nothing happens......
It's quite interesting! It is called evolution Chess...........

Also goes by the name Plunder Chess, and the website is PlunderChess.com I think.

Chessmaster1000: ty..interesting.
there are other variations..some suck...some are good.these I think these are good:
Xiangqi(Chinese Chess)
http://www.chessvariants.com/xiangqi.html
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omega chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/omega/rules.html

paco: Go would be great here 9x9, 13x13, and the 19x19 board...

I think Hyper Backgammon has proved that shorter versions of games can be a pretty big hit.

I, along with others are starting to get "burnt out" of the Froglet game, and it shows on how many current games are going (Which is still very popular, a top 5 game, but falling)

Anyway, I would like to suggest a smaller verison of Froglet - maybe an 8x8 board.

64 total spaces - (32 green, 20 Yellow, 8 Red, 4 blue) - or something similar.

Or maybe some variant with "islands" randomly inserted in games - something which will help make the games a little shorter.

If anyone has more idea, please take a look at the Froglet Board - I will be posting this idea and others so we can discuss it a bit more.

BIG BAD WOLF: 4x4 would suit me.

Nothingness: There's a fellowship that's worth checking out: Games Closet

It would be lots of fun to be able to have one fellowship challenge another in a tournament. You would specify how many team members are required. Then each player from one fellowship playes a player from another. They could be matched up best vs. best to worst vs. worst. Which ever team has the most points wins...

bumble: 6x6 would sound better...

nobleheart: Why not change the horsey to a unicorn! *pouty~pout*...

Rating positions as shown on the main page and on profile pages should also list the total number of players in the list, e.g. 23/77 or
23 of 77 like it is in the header of the rating table.
This would it make much easier to compare rating positions between games (that have different numbers of active players). Being number 23 in cylinder chess sounds more impressive than number 483 in chess, but 23/77 versus 483/1699 shows a more correct picture.

Luke Skywalker: I think even they should be sorted by the value of that ratio and not by the absolute ranking position.

I agree.

after both setups are done, the game should not be deletable anymore ...
although only one player in two years used that trick to evade spanking,
I think it is an overdue adjustment of the delete-option for unwanted games ... ~*~

I posted a few new games and one person decided to accept 3 games open to all, but I perfer to play as many ppl as I can to get to know everyone.....(and my policy is 1 game per customer)would it be possible to add a delete function to this, afterall, you can post a new game but why can we NOT have control whether to accept play with that particular player??