Maybe 40x30 icons could do the trick ;-)

100KB * 7000 players = 700GB = a LOT of memory space. And remember - we get more players all the time. I realize most players will not place their picture there, but it has the possibility of taking up a lot of space.

If you want your opponent's to be able to see your picture, make a site at geocities or something like that, and put your picture on it.

Perhaps would be useful to have a upload of a small bitmap of the player (max 100kb) in the profile.I see this at the Fritz/Chessbase server and then the playing is more personnally because you see your opponent.

tactician: Assuming i remember correctly, Pro reversi will start with the first four pieces in place, and reversi race counts the number of flipped pieces, rather than how many pieces you currently have. Someone said, however, that it will be the same winner anyways :-)

Once the king has moved as that piece to get out of check, can that same piece be used to get out of check again, or would they have to have another knight (or whatever piece it was)?

Also, i'm assuming the king could only move like this when in check?

I just got this great idea for a new Chess variation! It's called Imposter Chess.

The rules are all the same as in Western Chess except for the Switch Rule. It goes something like this:

(Note: This only works during Check not Checkmate.)

Whenever your King is in Check, you have the option to temporarily change your King into the Imposter which allows you to take one of your opponent's captured pieces and make your King move like the chosen piece does.

For Example: If White's King is in Check, then White can Imposterize its King into moving like a captured Black Knight.

                 What do ya think?

You may use this idea as long as you give the proper credit. :·)

Imposter Chess
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I've never heard of these variants yet it says they are in development, any info on them?

Fencer, my good man..
Can you give us an idea to `how far into the future' will it be for "Sabotage and it's variants"
to be added to this site??

I would prefer to have the "filter" in "My Tournaments" default to "All". Maybe users could set default. Certainly not a top priority. Thanks, R*L

i would also like to see ex chess in a different colour as i am just learning the game and i am still muddling that and plain chess

ROFL, spoilsport, grenv!!! lol!! :oD

Just make sure it isn't implemented for Dark Chess!

I think so.

In Go-Moku (5 in a line) does your opponent see the board from a different view ??

jason: Yes, it will be implemented.

Just to clarify Jason's post: The game boards, not the discussion boards. (When i first read it, i thought he meant the discussion boards) :-)

fencer would it be possible to put an option on the boards so we can turn them around (so we can see the board from the opponents view) i think this would be usefull for some of the games especially go-moko
thanks

I think I read about this before, but I don't remember....

If a pawn has 16 games going, and he is getting ready to start a tournament which will start 4 games (giving him 20 games - the pawn limit), it will not start it because the system thinks they do not have enough empty slots for all games...... but they do!

So I was just wondering if (1) this bug is known about by Fencer and (2) if this is going to be fixed.

Thanks!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Actually now that I think about it, it would be nice is Backgammon race had a different color around the board.

It does have a different starting position, but what happens to me a lot is that I will leave 1 or 2 of my pieces on the "bar" until later in the game. If I'm not paying attention, I will quickly look at the game, see the pieces on the bar (and thinking that it is regular Backgammon), I will start to move them off the bar.......... instead of moving pieces that are already on the board since I don't have to take the pieces off the bar yet.

For Nackgammon - it is similar enough to regular Backgammon that it does not need a different color, but for race... I could use a light green or blue or something... :-)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

P.S. I also agree that Extinction Chess needs a different color.

Extinction chess needs a color code. I've screwed up several times there because i thought it was regular chess.

Right.

It makes sense that anti-backgammon is different since you are playing differently than you would in normal backgammon. However the other variants (Nackgammon, Race etc) simply have different starting positions so it isn't necessary to distinguish one from the other during the play. In fact it might be distracting.

Just my 2c

All anti-games are red and many other variants are have colored outlines, e.g. loop chess is dark blue, three checks chess is light green etc. :-)

I just started playing "Other than Normel" Backgammon games,,,
I really like the way Anti-Backgammon is done in RED...
I don't have to try to remember which game is which,,,
can you make the other games different colors as well??
It is very cool!!
Thanks :)

I suggest you try again, sounds like an isolated incident to me. I assume NTL is an ISP?

Hi iam unable to gain access to my games I get the board see the games there is no info acroos from the game as to who the player is..The when I make my move the error page comes up..NTL say it is not their problem but the game site..Hope you can help..

Is it possible to provide facilities for Double Move chess, Progressive chess, Hostage chess, Alice chess etc. I like Extinction chess but miss the others I mention here.

fencer would it be possible to put an onption on the boards so we can turn them around (so we can see the board from the opponents view) i think this would be usefull for some of the games
thanks

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Would Fencer perhaps agree to the establishment
of a "Complaint Dept." DB where everybody could
speak their mind unfettered by restraints of corrupt
and biased moderators ? Heard some folks would
be glad to lend their services to such an endeavour ... >8) ~*~

Kevin: maybe i'm just talking about the page that has the list of tournaments on it, or the main page with the red numbers, whenever theres a new tourney posted, it should show up on the main page as "1 new"
not (49)
u see?

ANIMAL: But would you have to actually go into that tournament for it to be marked as "visited" or would you just have to view the tournament list with that tournament on it?

thanks Fencer... and i'm sorry :o(

I've just declared a draw at that game. But next time please post your request on another discussion board.

could someone look at game id #167377? Should this have ended in a draw, or do i have to offer a draw or resign? They are the only two options when i view the game...

fencer maybe when someone puts a new tourney up have next to it the date...like posted on (8-26)...theres sopme tourneys that wait a month or so for sign ups those of us that look all the time usully know them but it would be cool if we signed up for a touney that starts on sept 30 and we signed up the first day or 2 of it posted it would be cool to see that date next to it so we can say oh yea thats starting soon without having ot go into it...something like that.,,,,

yep
i think thats what i'm gettin at :)
you know how you have your fav boards and it has (1 new) by it or however many new posts

So you would call all non-visited tournaments "new"?

similar to new posts in discussion groups?

How would you define a "new tournament"?

Was wondering if it was possible for Fencer to make the red numbers on the main page to only show the "New" number of tournaments, so that if there is a new tournament posted then we will know :)

I agree, once the screen is raised the game counts. I would say Dark Chess is similar, once a move is made by each player the game counts. Maybe this is a good rule for all games?

short games are not counted, am I right ?
but that's not okay for (crazy) screen chess.
you might remember our first game Fencer -
a high poker, but completed correctly ...

so it indeed should count regardless of the amount of moves ...

now I'm just getting a mate in two, after a crazy screen chess setup ...

it should not be idle playing well, you know ... :D ... ~*~
g=182588

Yes, i have asked if the tournament winner could be indicated when it is mathematically proven. Fencer told me that he would not implement something like that until it was tested very thoroughly, and that was the last i heard of it.

Sorry grenv, but I cannot read...:)

Yay! Caissas, you must be reading all my old posts. lol.

That would expedite the tournament.

Would it not be enough if the first of every group is clear?Have we to wait until the last game is ready?

The creator has to start the subsequent rounds too, when all games have been completed.

The creator will receive a notification message.

When a round of a tournament has been completed is the next round automatically generated or must the tournament creator monitor to see when it is ready and click something to activate it?