!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

MadMonkey: Sorry my Friend, I didn't know ... I will rename it into ... BUZZCHESS ... is it OK now ?
Andy.

ChessVariant: Sounds lovely, but can not be called MADCHESS for legal reasons.

MAD is copyrighted by Monkey plc..... and any use of such name will need his permission first

Anyway, all fun aside, Dice Chess is a great game. i think people enjoy it for a number of reasons. Of course the game is controlled by the dice, so there is al ot of luck involved, but there is also some skill. You can try to play it as like normal chess by either attack or defending. I guess it makes those of us who are not great chess players think we are great players lol. I love the game and would welcome and variant

I wonder why people like to play such a move-limited/dictated game like Dice Chess ? Is it a lack of skills to play regular chess or its sophisticated variants or just something else, like the need to have some thrill of unexpected ? I think the answer should be common for any game played with dice, including backgammon ... people like to play and risk percetage ... there are many situation in Dice Chess that chess skills do not count at all and the vision type of "what if" plays the role. Can one master the game ? Like in any game of chance and skill the better player will win in the long run.
This is not the place to discuss little, tiny tricks in Dice Chess ... the only thing I would like to point out, that they exist.
I propose another game of Dice Chess, but this time with 2 dice ... the funny and original feature in this game is this: one of the dice tells the player WHICH piece can be moved and the other one HOW it can move ... let's look at the example.
We got 4 and 3 ... since 4 stands for a rook and 3 for a bishop, so we have two possible moves: either rook (WHICH) can move like a bishop (HOW) or bishop(WHICH) can move like a rook(HOW) ...
Of course the beginning moves are somewhat limited and any (1)(?) pair will move pawns(WHICH)
in few possible way(HOW) ... example: 1 5 moves a pawn like a queen ...
Doubles are nothing special in this version. They just moves once for particular number/piece.
there is one restriction however: pawn can eliminate opponent's king only as a pawn so the only chance to kill the enemy king by a pawn is to get 1 and 1 ... it's to limit a tremendous power pawns have in this game (there are 8 of them after all and in the first row of attack).
I call this game MADCHESS, because no piece really moves like they suppose to ... with the exception of doubles ...
regards,
Andy a.k.a ChessVariant

Amandakmg365: If you know of another user in the USA that you trust, you could always ask them if you could send them a Money Order, and let them use their PayPal account (or whatever) to get the membership for you.

This would be outside of Fencer's control, so if the user double crosses you - you would be on your own, but I'm sure you could find someone that you trust to help you.

Amandakmg365: Impossible. Due to legal reasons, accounting rules, very slow processing of this kind of payments etc.

I sure would like something added. I love playing at this site and the other players that I always renewed a membership but that is no longer possible because Fencer took away the only way that I had to pay for it. I was using money orders. They are safer then credit cards or checks because they don't bounce. It would be nice if he could bring them back. Thank you.

ScorpionOct64: Even with a "left click protector" - or disabled, it would still take someone about 3 seconds to still get the picture.

The only safe way to protect your family photos would be not to put them on the internet.

I like the new feature but wonder if a left click protector could be used so for those who have family pics can stop people from for exsample copy and save your childs photo to use in a ill say bad manner....would like to hear your ideas ty

Now the game is end, when 1 player can't move anymore. When this player has more points, he wins... So not logic, because the other player maybecan make more moves.
So the proposal variant is that one player can't make moves anymore, the other player still can make moves, and make more points...
I hope this is understandable...

Thx.

Thought i would add this to the list of games wanted

Bug Cafe have just released Cribbage
I never thought it was that popular round the world, but since i sent a message out asking if anyone would like a game, i have been swamped with requests from BrainKing players.

So i think would be a great Card game for BrainKing to have

Now off to catch up on these games

pauloaguia: Surely it would.

Any chance the game type lists get sorted by name? Like the team selection list in the fellowship page, for instance... It's getting harder and harder to find a particular team in such a big combobox...
Surelly it won't take more than 1 hour to change it?

Like many of us, i belong to a lot of Fellowships(too many lol), Teams (ok i am only in Madhouse ones), Stairs(site & fellowships ones) etc.... and its not that easy to keep track of all that i am in. By going to different pages we can find out if there is a Tournaments somewhere to sign up for, or maybe a Stair that i can start a game in.
With so many, this can take ages, so i thought, lets see if BrainKing could do it.

So how about in Settings could we have another Notify by email(or site message) that does the following:

1) Check for Tournaments, Ponds and Stairs in Fellowships i belong to, that i can sign up for
2) Check for site Stairs, that i can sign up for
3) Teams i am Captain of, open to enter Tournaments
In fact anything people can think of could be added..........

With tick boxes

Then either once a day or week(whenever we set it) BrainKing would scan all Fellowships, Stairs etc... and compile it in an email (or even a site message) with the relevant details or Links to the places to go.
It would certainly save time and also help boost participation in things

MadMonkey: Yes I second that. It would be nice if we could see if our games were in the waiting room in the Fellowship.

rednaz23: I often put some in the Madhouse Waiting Room, and the Main one, BUT as i say once created there is no way of telling which have been excepted from where

I only really noticed it earlier when i saw there were no games in the Madhouse Waiting Room. I thought, but i am sure i have some in there, but how do i find out simple, you cant

MadMonkey: Very good point! But do you really have that many games out there where you can't keep track?

Can we have a way to see if games we have created are in either the Site Waiting Room OR a Fellowship one

As we can not see our own games in Waiting Rooms there is no way of knowing where we have games left

We have the bottom of the Main page, but that does not tell us where those games have been posted.

It would be extremely helpful to know when going about posting some more

There is a very convenient option to enter multiple games at the same tournament at once... could we have a similar option to get out of severall games at once in a tournament? Entering 123 different pages to click the corresponding link doesn't seem very appealing right now...

Please calculate the pond BKR as soon as we lose, instead of when the whole pond is finished.

The same as with any other tournament type of situation, where the BKR is calculated after we lose, not after the whole tournament is finished.

Players in Teams

a) Could there be a toggle of some sort where players can make there selves available or not for Team games. Some players just leave Teams when they have a lot of games and never return. It would be a great way of solving this problem. This would also help if a Team is short, we could contact those Players.

b) Players that have not been on in a month (and turned Grey). Could they either be removed automatically from the Team, show as Grey in the actual challenge as it does not so they may well get entered by mistake or if point (a) is introduced, set as unavailable.

Please consider these options Fencer, they would be so helpful

Well not to many wrote what they though of my ludo player on brainking.info so I thought I would post it here. What do you think? Would you like it to be added into brainking? Would you like it to be encapsulated into a page like other game boards or just linked to it opening in a new tab?

Quick note: On http://brainking.info/ is a working demo. If it were embedded or linked from brainking.com then your game would be stored indefinitely(close and come back later your game will still be waiting) and your wins would give you a chance to win the current months prize.

When we get a Team challenge result through, could you include the BKR change please, like in a normal game

Ceiter: that is true not sure what I was thinking.

mctrivia: That's what I thought. Since the page is re-built anyway when I go to add/edit a note (the text field does not exist when simply viewing the game), basically anything is possible. Or am I missing something?

Ceiter: using meta refresh the page will refresh after a period of time no matter what. On some pages fencer does not put the command in to refresh and there for it doesn't but it can't be removed after the page is already built. javascript refresh is very easy and can be stoped.

mctrivia: Are you sure about that? I notice that when I go to add or edit a note, it loads an entirely new page. Surely the auto-reloading code could simply be un-included from that page (and only that page), right?

MadMonkey: I agree MM! When I started I was used to the IYT colors. Of course as time went on I got used to the style here, but it was something that held me back some when I started.

Antje: How about an X and O like i did for the mobile version of my ludo game.

http://apps.facebook.com/brainking/ludo.php (must log into facebook first)

would it be possible to change the color of the white stone in the Ludo game to a more contrasting color. on my laptop the white stone is more difficult to spot quickly.

We have the option to filter the unrated games from the Waiting Games list. Can there be an option to prevent people from directly inviting us to unrated games?
I usually don't like to play an unreated game (unless in special occasions, where I aggree to it to teach someone how to play, for instance). It's very disappointing to spend some time in a good game only to get to the end and see it counted for nothing.
The other day I had severall pending invitations for me to accept. Since there were a few, I accepted / rejected the ones I wanted directly from the MainPage (very convenient - I can see the time settings, the opponent's name and the game type and send a greetings message to all of them at once). But there is no indication wheater the game is rated or not (and quite frankly I didn't even remeber it).

So, can there be an option to prevent these invitations, like one can prevent invitations in particular game types? Or at least some warning about the fact that the games are unrated in that MainPage list...

alanback: That is already avallible, click on "Change smileys" above the message box

alanback: Settings / JavaScript / Your selection of smileys

Would it be possible to have a list of "favorite smileys" so I don't have to search through 11 pages of them to find the one I want every time?  Thanks!

Although this seems something little, it could bring a few new members apparently

It seems that there are people from IYT who would play here if they could have an option to change the colour of pieces, as they are so used to playing at IYT with there colours they cannot get used to Black / White in line games etc.... here.

Would it be possible to set which colours you would like to use, maybe just create another couple sets of pieces

Ceiter: Not unless Fencer switches to a java based refresh system

A couple times now I've been editing a comment or note in a game after I've played, and then the autorefresh kicks in, reloading the page and erasing everything I've typed. Eek!

Would it be possible to have BrainKing disable the autorefresh while the user is adding/editing comments or notes?

pauloaguia: that's an idea

mctrivia: I don't want to remove my (or anyone else's wall), just want to make it good looking.
Go to page: 1, 2, 3... is another option to do that. Although I am not sure if an actual Wall has pages. Perhaps "bricks" would be better. Some years back, people used to scratch a single brick on someone's wall, not 10㎡ as they do nowadays