In game notation you can easily see when the piece is moved from bar (bar-2) but there is no notation when the piece is moved on bar.
It could be shown easily by using some special mark in notation. (12-11!) could mean that opponents piece was captured on triangle 11 and placed on bar.

playBunny: There are many piccies with awful grimaces which e.g. Bosko and I and other surely want to switch off.
What is the problem about making a switch in preferences: "Show other players avatars: Yes No"?

Back on topic, please. :-)

grenv, Vikings: funny you should say that. I'd actually edited my post to say that "He surely couldn't mean mine, not even the naked full-sized picture of me with a suggestive carrot", but BrainKing went dead for a while and the edit didn't go through.

playBunny: also offensive to bald headed hunters, tazmanian devils, fueding hillbillies, ducks that have a lisp and of coarse angry martians that are only 2 feet tall that wear a broom on their head

playBunny: Yours is pretty offensive to the carrot worshipping natives of vegetopia. Fortunately they don't usually have internet access.

grenv: I think Bosko means people's piccies. I'm curious which ones he finds disgusting...

Bosko Biati: What Avatars? This is a most mysterious request.

Pedro Martínez: I'd call it a disgusting Ego if I dared.
No, preferably just singled one on by one, perhaps it could be
functionally linked to the block feature to avoid button clobber.

Bosko Biati: Did you mean all avatars or just the 'disgusting' ones?

grenv: I meant disgusting avatars, mysterious emoticons not.
What is it anyway? A bed with a frustated or rather overwhelmed princess,
possibly by a atrange kind of uhm mole after corrupting pearly gates secretary?

Bosko Biati:

Although there can't be an argument about taste,
I'd like to see an option for switching them off.

Mirjam: I believe that here it's called auto-vacation.

What about adding the possibility of byo-yomi periods in the time settings?
When I play against a player with 1000 running games, he or she mostly moves the last hour before time-out. So I have to wait 7 days for each move to be done. "Well, set the time limit on 2 days", but sometimes I want to think longer about a difficult move.
When you add the possibility of byo-yomi periods the players can time-out a fixed amount of times. F.i. when two players use one day per move and they use 5 byo-yomi periods, each player can time-out 5 times a game. When they time-out a new period of one day starts.
This system is used in the game of go.

kleineme: It's somewhere in the Bug Tracker.

kleineme: I've noticed this too. Matches that strangely weren't in my Last 10 list. Before I found them buried in the longer history I was ready to report it as a missing-matches bug, lol.

Hi,

I've recently played a game where I tried to find a saving move for a couple of days. As I didn't find one I resigned the game. To my surprise the end of game date wasn't the day when I resigned but the day of my opponents last move!

Obviously this is the standard behaviour but it only now came to my attention as this particular game wasn't even in the list of my opponents ten last finished games! In my eyes this is rather irritating.

What makes it even more illogical is that the date which is displayed in the BKR chart is in fact the date of my resignation. I would like it to be more consistent and I would like it to be as in the BKR chart ;)

Fencer: Thanks :-)

SueQ: Sure.

Can we have a drop message advancing us to the next stair game.

playBunny: Sure, it can be added to the list of supported formats on the Settings page.

playBunny: Oh, that one. I rarely look at it. Perhaps it's because I don't like the 24 hour clock and ignore it. It is two lines on my page too, but aside from it not being in AM/PM format I haven't any problem with it being on two lines. It actually makes it easier to look at for me by having it on two lines. Though calling 21:49 seems silly when it'd be lots easier to see 9:49 PM.

Walter: Good question. I meant the Date and time: on every page in the (for me) right hand column under all the flags.

If there was a new date format "dD Mmm YYYY hH:MMam" for that column, one without the seconds, I'd still want the discussion boards timestamps to show the seconds as they have relevance.

playBunny: Are you talking about the time stamp on these discussion board posts? If so, you can change your view of it as I have done and it all fits on one line.

Near the bottom of the Settings General page is this line:

Message area size

Then there's two boxes that you can change the settings in. The width and the heighth. I have mine at 5 lines 60 characters. This puts the date in the long format on one line. Just above it is a place for changing the look of the date. Unfortunately none of them have AM/PM and none of the have month,day,year in the order that I prefer them. I personally like having the month spelled all the way out. This is how I would have the format selected if I was given the option.

4:20 PM on November 2, 2005

Could there be a short format with a 3-letter abbreviation for the month and the time without leading zeros for the hour, 12-hour clock with am/pm indicator (in lowercase) and no seconds?

Example:
3 Nov 2005, 1:06pm

This will fit the column much better than the long named-month format so it won't take two lines.

nobleheart: hehe, for some that is a year round necessary feature, LOL.

how about for halloween,all girls from from brainking have the pre-fix "zombie-ghoul" added to their login names?

Rose: I speak francophone & ojib!!

I would like some more room to type a message which accompanies the membership payment.

playBunny: Would that be a harp and glass of Guinness LOL

Bry: Delete the Union Jack? No way. I've selected it because I've never identified myself as English. Born in London, maybe, but I'm a Celt. Unless there's a flag for London Irish, lol.

ScarletRose: Not what I meant at all. Our flag is here.
Referred to the use of proper english as a language

http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm

Rose: You are not recognized!! .. My goodness someone maybe needs to offer your flag to the site? Heck.. maybe even a gif of our flag as well.. ehhehe

Fencer - can you delete the Union Jack flag?.

As far as Language options, it can be replaced by the English Flag, and all those who have the Union Jack on their profile can choose from the English, Scottish Welsh and Northern Ireland flags, which are already in the database.

ScarletRose: We could go ever further there and say Canada uses Queens proper english and has no recognition!

Our English can be and is so much different than US English

Bry: I agree.. we are English here in the US as well.. but our flag is 13 stripes of red and white shared with a blue corner filled with 50 stars..

grenv: I think it's fine how it is, but I would prefer the Union Jack Flag that is at the top right, to be the Red Cross on white flag. When you hovver your mouse over it, it says "English", but that flag represents "British" - to me.

How about someone do a british english translation and an american english translation, then we could have both little flags at the top.

Pedro Martínez: that's ok, we like black sheep of the Czech society!

we'll think up a reason to make it on topic..... I know! How about changing the black pieces in Amazon's to black sheep, then we can all shoot our arrows at Pedro!!!

Whew, now that we are all back on topic...........

cariad: I think the moderators have taken a holiday.

Pedro Martínez: Perhaps 'vacation' was used with the foresight that American English would be used by the majority of BK members?

Sorry, rod Delete as necessary.

grenv: Just a minor note: It's the British English that is used by overwhelming majority of Czech people speaking English. At school, teachers had always been telling me that my Englsh was "rubbish". But I have never stopped being a black sheep of the Czech society and never quit using the American English. Therefore, it really surprises me that BK uses the term "vacation".

Sorry for an off-topic post.

Czuch Chuckers: Right, this is a czech site. But American English is kind of pervasive so it's not so surprising. In most other english speaking countries it would be holiday, so if this was a site in England you would never see the word vacation used in this context I think.

Vikings: That may be a definition, but it is not necessarily the meaning....

Czuch Chuckers: holiday means holy day

grenv: LOL... and this is not an American site, is it?

Czuch Chuckers: I thought vacation was the American term for it.