yes, we need calm.... yes, some of us don't have time to play more than 20 and might not have the extra bucks to pay for membership.... but BY GOLLY this site is for fun and relaxation..... not to blow up over piddly stuff..... heck, i have had people resign and block me just because it looks like i am about to win the game....geeezzzzz..... do we have to turn into 7 year olds?.....maybe i said that wrong.....i would love to turn into a 7 year old again.....doggone it

wouldnt it be nice being able to create invitations for a random-game?

rod03801: ty rod...my beef is not with you...i understand...and ty for clarifing your intent...im calm now ty for your respect on your last post...

Snoopy: Yes, you are correct. I had forgotten we could do that too. I think he would like to be able to filter the Waiting Game page too. It would be kind of a pain to click on each person in the waiting room to see if they are a pawn or not.

But yeah, at least it is possible to place a game in the waiting room and restrict what level you want to play against. Of course it limits the amount of people that would see your game waiting.

ScorpionOct64: Excuse me? This is not the board for arguments. I'm sorry you took what I said the wrong way, though!

Your request could have been placed without the name calling, is all I was saying.

I know you were frustrated because you couldn't reply to the person since they blocked you, but that doesn't mean the public boards are the place to get your message across to them.

I certainly wasn't trying to offend you. Calm down.

coan.net: ty so much...to the last 2 posts...you treated me as a equal n with respect unlike ROD...im just resigning all my pawn games and start to finish my games then just playing friends list only...its sad ive found this site to be the best but might have to leave...Fencer is great n fair im sure this site will be better but dont think i can wait...wish u all good luck...God bless n take care of you n yours

ScorpionOct64: After reading your message on the General Chat board, am I guessing correct that pawns are writing you because you accept their games and then you don't play very fast?

As a very slow player myself, I can't think of the last time I got a negative message from someone because of my slow play - but it might be that I say so on my profile which helps. Maybe writing something about how you like to play and such in your profile - where many will go to your profile before sending you a message - it might help.

just a suggestion.

ScorpionOct64: I understand what you're saying. They can make as many accounts as they want, and keep coming after you with different user names, I do think that's one thing that some people really take advantage of, they make a whole bunch of accounts and figure there's no point in paying for a membership.
I personally don't have any issues with pawns harassing me, but I do think they get away with a lot more than they should. A pawn membership is to get a taste of the site and then buy a membership, or else just be happy with a few games. I enjoyed the site and bought a membership. I can see where money might be a problem, but if they can't earn enough money to pay for the membership maybe they don't have (shouldn't have) the time to be playing games.

rod03801: as a PAID member you offended me!!!!! im trying to play my games but have to spend most of my time deleting msgs...what you dont understand is they think they run the site...but after your comment ill never be a member again...ty for your aragants..,.bye n good reedance

ScorpionOct64: Simply block the person you are concerned about. Why would you want to block an entire membership level? Let's please keep it to requests, and leave out the name calling, please.

is it possible we can get a block list for all of same membership level?i get alot of msg from pawns saying what they want about me and saying there putting me on there blocked list...i find them a coward in doing this and it only makes them a bigger loser then they allready are...ty for any help

could it be possible when going to waiting games to show creators membership level? ive had many probs with pawns and no longer want to pick up games from them..i know when you click on it to accept you see there membership level but it would be quicker to see ahead of time and dont click..ty for any help

Fencer: :(

aaru: Not possible until the Polish localization of BrainKing is finished and released.

I want to create fellowship with the main language - POLISH. It's possible?

I know when Polls were release someone asked for an Other option.
In other words the person who sets the Poll could tick a box and an extra choice box would be added with choices, which when a person ticks, another box would open so they could add there suggestion.
Well that's how the ones i know have work.
Any thought on having one ?

coan.net: That would be the best solution. MadMonkey's sugestion would be acceptable if Fencer refuses to do the bye system though. It realy is a problem especcially with trying to make tourneys for all games. some games like backgamon, and chess are very popular and you may get 128 people others though you may only get 7. There is no reason that both should not run if max was set to 128 and min to 4

rod03801: What I meant was the byes are not counted - like you put an imaginary "fake" person in that spot to "play", and automatically lose to let the player move on to the next round. (Where the fake player's games that are automatically lost are not counted as a win/lose or anything - just there long enough to get the person into the next round.) - kind of a cheating way to program in byes into the tournament programming.

coan.net: I knew you would be able to word this better lol

That is all that is needed, all empty spaces are replaced by an "fake" player, that does exist

How simple is that

coan.net: "All games are "not counted" and "not rated" - that way the system will move the players on to the next round."

Unless I'm misunderstanding, wouldn't that mean the whole tourney would have to be not counted and not rated? I imagine most people wouldn't want to be a part of that.

Hmm.. actually tournaments can't be not counted and not rated, can they?

Maybe I'm just confused.

I think byes would be the best solution (over kicking people out of a tournament)

When the deadline hits, the system should:

1. First lower the number of spaces to the lowest possible - so if it was setup as a 32 player tournament, but only 14 players joined - automaticly switch to the 16 player tournament.

2. Then randomly (or I think some would say highest ranked?) pick 2 people to get the automatic byes into the next round.

I think for Fencer, just needs to image a "fake" user called bye who will be inserted into every empty space. This "fake" user automatically "loses" the game which allows the next person to move on. All games are "not counted" and "not rated" - that way the system will move the players on to the next round.

As we cannot have byes(but all still want them) in Elimination Tournaments, would it be possible that Brainking could keep track of people in the order they registered for a Tournament

Then a lot more Elimination Tournaments could actually start, rather than letting players down.

e.g. 8 player one, only 5 enter, the first 4 to sign would play once deadline reached OR 32 player and only 23 enter, first 16 play, and so on for all Elimination Tournaments.

Would save so many being deleted at least AND players may sign up faster

Just trying to find a way round a crazy problem, so easy to have byes and keep EVERYONE happy

Rainbow Road: Chessversi's new rules are suppose to make the game much more even (less one-sided). Except for a easy win against someone who does not know better, why would anyone want to play by the old rules? (serious question since I can't think of any off the top of my head)

Chessversi should have both the old and new rules option when setting up the game...

Could the 'Option' and 'Votes' headings in Polls be made clickable please so we can sort by them.
Option, alphabetically or as they were set and Votes, highest to lowest or lowest to highest would be good.

Would be so useful to find out which one is top etc.... when running those Polls with over 100 answers possible

MadMonkey:

Thats too much....I was just now coming here for the exact same request!!!

Opinion polls always generate some sort of discussion topics, Maybe we could take a poll to find out who would be interested in discussion boards linked to the polls?

2 request in 1 today
I just answered a Poll, and thought to myself, it would be nice to comment on this, so how about each Poll having its own Discussion Board like Tournaments.
Then maybe also a second Tab on the Polls link so we could have a Main Poll Discussion Board

Well you mentioned in your blog that you are missing 1 player games. You can embed any of my games on aigamez.com into your site for people to play. No membership with me is required though they can win prizes if they do register. I will be adding more games in the near future to and you can embed those also when they come.

Couple of very small things as it is the weekend and Fencers rest time
When Tournaments are running we have a use of there own Discussion Board, which are very under used.
1. Could these be avaliable right from when the Tournament is created please
Be handy for people to ask for games to be added, ask for help or just talk about games they need help in.
2. I like to create Practice Tournaments (that are UNRATED) for Madhouse players to get help in those games they need it. As said, these are UNRATED so no BKR's are NOT effected for either those learning or teaching. Could there be a way these games could stand out in our games when we are playing them, maybe a  bright GREEN message at top left of game screen beside the game type just saying Unrated or Practice

Deor: Have to say, when the idea of edit was introduced (though a VERY good idea) it can be confusing unless you are used to using it. Maybe a different colour background or something or as you say a BOLDER heading for each box

After making a move in Logik, I wanted to write a note to myself, so I clicked on "(edit)", wrote the note, and clicked "Submit". Then I realized I had sent the note as a message to my opponent. Not good. :D

Could the name of the link be changed from "edit" to "Edit message for opponent"?

Rainbow Road: yes, it says that (obviously a Not counted game so nothing is effected)

MadMonkey: Game editor for games like mancala to have a preset opening moves... but on a non rated game format...

Can we have a defining new range instead of 100's may be 25's exp 1100 1125 1150 1175 1200

An extension for Game Editors.

I play many games like Mancala (against great player ljubisa popovic) trying to find possible ways from certain positions. Comes in very handy to learn. The thing is most game between good players, nearly always start out the same first 6 to 8 moves, like in other games such as Cheversi & Chess. It is always good to go over a game to see mistakes made.

So Monkey thought...........

How about a new option, to set a game from any position, against a player of your choice and play from that point. (obviously a Not counted game so nothing is effected).

I think this would be great for going back over games played, or trying new end games in Chess & Cheversi etc....

A must addition for BrainKing

*Now Monkey be quiet for the weekend lol*

Could players that have left a Fellowship (or been removed) be automatically removed from Fellowship Stairs please

Can we have "go to the next game of this type and off line player" .....

Auto Refresh System does not seem to update messages or games anymore.

!Undertaker!:yes this is the wrong place but I can answer anyways.  It is destiny.  Random games are completely random what colour you get.  Just happens to be a coincidence in the few games you have played you just happened to get the same.  Believe it or not I once rolled 13 6s in a row( 1 in 2,821,109,907,456 odds rolling 13 dice).

I don't know if this is right board, but I have a question about waiting games. In some challenges our color in the game is random. However, in last month I accepted 5 or 6 games with random color, but my color was always the same. I would like to know if this situation happen with other people and maybe can be a bug or is only destiny. lol

ChessVariant: I know Fencer is not a fan of variants of variants, but there are a few that I think would work really well. (including the ones mentioned below)

What I would love to see are more Dark versions of many of the games (dice, fisher/random, and crazy screen are 3 that come to mind). For a person like me (who is not very good at chess), dark, dice, and crazy setups make me at least believe I have at least a some-what better chance against players who are "experts" at regular chess.

I think it's time to make this MOVE for all the variants still holding to an orthodox setup ... there is a place you can play Anti Chess with fisher setup ... let's make it available here too.
I would go even further and "fisherized" both sides separately ... unexpected is what excites the most ...
let's forget about opening theory and the same setup all the time ... be to chess what impressionists were to art of painting ... break the tyranny of rules ... be free to dance on the board, everyday differently ...
Regards,
Andy.

ChessVariant:

yes, yore almost right... ,-)

at least it could be set and opened like fisher random shess.

hey fencer, lets call it fisher random dice chess and give it a try!!!

I think Dice Chess should be played in such a way that 16 pieces should be randomly mixed (pawns and figures)and placed on the first two rows on the board ... with one exception ... king should be always in the first row ... opening play wouldn't be boring and there will be practicaly no chance to play the same setup again ...
Andy.

a checker type game take a look and see if youd like to see it on BK
www.expertvillage.com/video/40206_give-take-rules.htm

mctrivia: LOL, never thought about that. So I did money laundering once in my life. I feel like a rebel now

In our Team boxes (on our main fellowship page) could we have our Team Ratings position, BKRs and Graphs links like we have for ourselves please

coan.net: Actually sending another user a money order and having them pay through paypal is ilegal. It falls under money londering legislation. However I don't think anyone would care.

MadMonkey: You will be the first to be asked for play when Fencer implements this version ... be ready

ChessVariant: noooo lol, stick with MADCHESS, it may feel sorry for me & i may get good at the game lol