Walter: Try it now.

Walter: Yes, I know what you mean. It's a bug and it is in my TODO list to be fixed soon. Don't worry, I didn't forget about it.

Do you understand what it is that I'm talking about? Have you looked at a finished game since you converted to the BrainKing 2? Try this one and tell me what you see.

http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=384814

When I go there, all I see is my pieces. I'm trying to understand why my opponent resigned and I have no way to check the game now that it's over. Could you help me out here? This is what my recent posts have been about. You and everyone else should be able to see the whole board. If the whole board is in darkness, it's acting like the game was still in progress. If you can see the whole board, then you're a special case and you need to have someone else check it and show you or look at through my membership account.

Board moderators can have green numbers as well.

That's it - banned for being in a silly mood!

I like red, but can we have some other colours as well please Moderator, blue, green......oh and white :o)
(now who is in a silly mood this morning lol)

*edit*
Going back to all my new boats now lol

Summertop: refer to Server news - the red numbers bug is covered there.

Many links have red numbers next to them. Some numbers are links and some are not. It would be nice if they all behaved the same.

with the new feature of the red numbers next to my fellowships telling how many new posts there are, I am getting in the habit of clicking the red number. It would be a nice intuitive interface feature to have them behave the same.

Obviously, this is minor. Just something to keep in the back of your mind so that when you have free time (does that even exist?) you can maybe look at doing it.

Would we still be able to see the inactive ratings anywhere?

Sure, it can be done and it will be done.

Right, just as you don't see Bobby Fischer near the top of the chess rankings now. Whatever system they use to roll people of the ranking list should be used here.

I think better is if BK would hide the inactive players if they have not played a game since more than one year.We have discussed these themes a long time ago.

hi there,
i would like a feature to be added that "helps" those players who play frequently to go up... . there are some players in some games who just played a few, got their very good BKR and remain there even if they didnt play for a year or longer. you cant paas them... . so how about a more intelligent calculation that takes points from those who do not play after a while?

public or not as option ... ( so players could
try out or train some lines together that are
not supposed to be known until a certain event )

all tournament games should be uncovered
though after the king was struck, imho ... ~*~

not interested in keeping strategy secret. Besides, there are no secret strategies that I'm aware of. Anyone else aware of any?

but wont that unveil the winners possible secret strategy?

I'd like to weigh in on the dark chess debate now that i've experienced it. We definitely should see the games afterwards in my opinion, in fact that's half the fun, seeing what the game looks like without the darkness.

Yes, that's what I thought of.

On Goldtoken it automatically selects the username field when the page comes up - i had a quick look at the source and it was a line of javascript:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.loginform.nickname.focus();
//-->
</script>

where "loginform" is the name of the form and "nickname" is the name of the textbox. With the HTML comments around it, it won't hurt people who don't have java enabled browsers, and will work for people who do.

Fellowship teams, if you go to ANY fellowship, and look at their team, it will say "you cannot join this team because you a member of XXX team" - if it has a link to join the team, then you're not in that type of team in any fellowship!

Do you use IE? then try http://www.iespell.com/
If you don't, oh, well...learn to speel. LOL

LOL sorry BBW

We need it. However, if not there, could you please auto-select the user name field. Currently, I have to click to get into it. If I could just start typing, it would be great.

HEY - No fair, i was going to make that suggestion once things settled down! :-)

Anyway, what I picture is possible a "Team managment" page where a person can see all the teams they belong to (and which fellowship), with easy links to each.

EDITED for Speelling mistacks :-)

Is there a quick way to see which teams you are signed to in which fellowship or do you need to go through each game type individually???

It's definitely "incorrect", it means we'd have to ask our opponent to send their moves and then find somewhere to replay it to view the game.

Fencer-
Before you changed to Version 2 of BrainKing, a finished game of Dark Chess could be viewed with the whole board shown. Now it is as if you were still playing the game. It's completely dark if two other people were playing the game. I'm not sure about ideas aside from what I posted in the previous post and on the Dark Chess discussion board about the problem and my suggestion for an improvement instead of just making it like it used to be. Which at a minimum would be nice to have as it was, instead of how it is now. Since you asked the question, I have to assume that you didn't purposely change the programming to make the finished games completely dark. That would qualify as a bug, would it not? I also sent you a short e-mail about it, too.

I am not sure if it is correct or not. Any ideas?

The finished games are staying dark, instead of showing the whole board as they used to. Is this a bug?
I'd like to request it be made the way it was, or improved by showing all three viewpoints of the players with the boards orientated at the viewer's option.

It's a thing I'll have to do. After more important things are done :-)

cool :o) I guess its a thing youll have to do? or is it a setting we can?

Of course.

can the fellowships list on the right of our main page be put back to alphabetical order please?
And the friends online?

I'm a one finger typer so seven actions just to enter my password, I prefer to use a Mac, on this machine the main page is very slow to load when I'm not going there volitionally, so much so that I press "stop" then "reload" to speed it up. That's ten basic actions. Also if I'm using the Mac I have to disconnect several times due to problems with other sites, the degree of inconvenience crosses my threshold of laziness.

I second that opinion :o)

Geez, you guys must be lazy! No wonder everyone seems to abbreviate. Is it that hard to type Good game, or must we all use gg, too?
I type my handle "Walter Montego", hit tab, type my password, hit tab, hit the space bar, I'm logged on. Now just how much trouble is that? Unless you're having to do it for every move, I don't see the problem. I log in once, and as long as I leave atleast one window on the site and don't log out, I never type it in again that session. Perhaps it's a nice convenience for the little amount of time it saves, but it sure isn't that much of a bother to make it sound like it's the end of the world. Considering some of the other bugs I've come across or heard mention of, I'd like Fencer's efforts directed toward them first if the auto log on feature is going to require a lot of programming to fix.

Auto login has been temporarily disabled. Please wait for the list of all changes [which I publish today, hopefully] for more information.

Fencer, no response on auto-login? If I want to log out, I will click "log out". Otherwise please let me stay logged in.

seems to be a good idea having last 10 games on a persons profile
however
seems a little silly if it doesnt show who won?

auto-login "please" this is tiresome this way !!!!

i agree. i want my auto-login back! :)

I would like to request a "Boss" button like this one Here

I play at work and when I'm at work, my boss will sometimes try to take a quick look at what I'm doing. I simple page like that one would help me out alot! Thanks

The only reason to disable auto-login is to prevent people who may have access to your computer to go brainking.com and do something under your account. Since we are not talking about online banking here i honestly don't see a point taking a nice feature away. Yahoo, MSN, gmail let you do that. A lot more sensitive information is stored there.

It IS a security thing. I can't remember all the details though!

it stops spammers probably

Is there a reason for having to sign in every time one comes online? It is rather tiresome.

Thanks Fencer. :o)

gooner: Yes. Not at the very top but I didn't forget about it. And a proper checkers notation, of course.

Are proper checker pieces on your to do list Fencer?

hmmm - strange ...
for me it works the way you would want.

Mozilla 1.7 RC3, Firefox v0.9 as well and
also IE6 ... pwd-manager of Mozilla/Firefox
could handle your autologin onto that ...