Fencer: Fair enough. Certainly the code needs to be able to count territory if it's going to determine who is the winner. Identifying dead stones, though, is a separate issue, and counting all stones as alive doesn't necessarily break the game. But I'm sure you'll come up with a good system, and I can be patient. :)

One more question, and then I'll leave you alone:
Will Black play first, as is standard in Go?

KotDB: Actually, if you don't mind the missing scoring algorhithm, I could release Go immediately :-) But I would like to do at least some scoring support first.

Fencer: Go is coming! This is truly good news. Can you tell us which rule set (Japanese, Chinese, American,...) will be implemented?

Is it necessary to have the code detect live and dead groups? Even if all stones were counted as alive, in practice this would just require the players to contine playing until any dead stones were captured. Better yet, you could use the procedure recommended by the rules of the American Go Association, in which each player indicates which of his opponent's stones he believes are dead, and if they disagree, they play on.

Marfitalu: Handicap games can be done, of course.

Marfitalu: Sourceforge.net is what I always check first.

ΜīήďSрŷ: Go is already being developed and the game models are virtually finished (capturing, ko and other rules work well). The only problem is the final score counting which is not solved yet (detecting of live and dead groups, territory counting).

(Go)
One of the oldest board games known, Go originated in China as early as 2000 B.C., according to some sources. The goal is to control territory on the board by placing stones. There is regular Go (GX) played on a 19x19 size board, and the easier 9x9 (G9) and 13x13 (G3) versions. Basic rules provide only a brief introduction to help the beginner get started. Takes in depth study to get the hang of.

This is truly my favorite board game, but unfortunately it's not at this site. Maybe you guys can check into it. It's the toughest among all the stone games, not only the most fun to play.

Kristopher

PegasusInAR: When my daughters were younger, they used to say... "don't you now feel crunchy!" ROFL!!!


glad you found the button!

Fencer: yes, great! thank you :)

Mr. Shumway: It should be fixed now.

Mr. Shumway: A small bug, probably.

Fencer: Moebius for example, but this happened to all random games tournaments I have viewed so far!

Mr. Shumway: Which tournament is it? It's not supposed to show null.

would say "Oh, sorry. Ne'er mind!" when she was told that something was not right that she said - I found the decline function - like I said, my thinking abilities come and go.

if there was an option to decline an invitation to a non-stairs/non-tournament/non-club-challenge game especially when it is obvious when the person doing the inviting did not read the profile of the person they are inviting or they would not have invited the invitee that particular type of game. I just had this happen where someone invited me and I cannot find a way to decline the game without playing it out and I do not see it as being very fun for either of us because of my difficulty with this particular type of game and my ability for that type of game and its variants wavers unpredictably from bad to just terrible depending on how my autoimmune disorders are playing with my brain (most games other than chess and its variants are somewhat easier for my brain to keep up with for some reason maybe because all of the pieces move in the same way as all of the other pieces as the other pieces aka all checkers pieces move on diagonals while in chess rooks move in a different way from a bishop etc). This is not a complaint about how the chess games are played because they are ancient games that are played in the same ways all over the world, just stating the facts about my ability to play them and my seeing a need to be able to decline an invite before the game is started like I have seen as an option on other sites.

would it be possible to still display the game types of a random game tournament after it is finished, instead of "null"?

I'd like to see a sign that shows people's profiles have been updated. Sometimes there's good info in peoples' profiles that I don't want to miss. Thank you.

Maybe the option to hide someone from all boards at once. Now if I don't want to read someones obtrusive posts I have to hide her on every board!

grenv: Correct. In my youth, I fortunately have the opportunity to watch out GM Alberic O'Kelly de Galway exploring chess games of play by mail. He was a player of great renown and evidently not a cheater!

redfrog: I agree, the practice board is a copy from the actual game.

Where we can freely move the pieces as if we had a woodden board and pieces.

Hence no need to complicate the Fencer's task with a link to the 'mechanism' of a particular game or variant but only to the shape of the board and pieces.

grenv: I believe the practice is also acceptable in coorespondence chess leagues.

mctrivia: I disagree, this is "play by mail" where it is common practise to play scenarios on a board before moving. I don't think that is cheating at all.

redfrog: Only problem with this idea is it is normally when playing a game in real life you have to play out the senarios in your head. Having a board to play them out on is kind of like using another program to help you win. I think this would be a useful feature for past games. Have the ability for players to save the point at which they have figured out they can't lose and let other players try to figure out how they did it.

Caissus: maybe a link on the current real game to move into a practice board with the current pieces as they are - where you can then manipulate both sides of the board to play out some possibilities....

You can also play unrated games for practice.

That's a good idea. My vote is also yours.

Daniel Snyder: I agree too. You have my vote.

Beren the 32nd: A practice board would very helpfull...

Spirou: This idea has my vote too!

Caissus: I support vigorously this suggestion!

Because most of us have not a real board of all games at home it would be useful if we could have a “practice board” which can be used as a board to analyze the game and to play the moves forwards and backwards.

It would be helpful if the bug tracker was searchable. This would help cut down on duplicate reports. Beter yet if when you submit a bug report it automatically searches and tryes to find duplicates and asks if they are the same before submiting the report.

mctrivia: I believe Fencer is working on this, starting with a facelife of the underlying interface code that will eventually mean we can have a mobile BrainKing :)

A PDA version of this site. When I go to google.ca on my iPAQ I get a special PDA version. When I go to this site it won't let me log on. Would be nice if I could log on even beter if was set up for smaller screen size.

Hrqls: YEAH!!

anyway..back to topic...peace love to all

blazeinshore: maybe a bit playfully sarcastic,but never nasty.I love to communicate...this is a great community for doing so.but lately I have heard comments by some more pre-occupied with chatting & with prying into all kinds of info about fellow members,than with playing games in friendly competition.

The fellowships pages are getting very crowded. How about a small tab menu like in the Profile pages or in Settings? The options would be Members, Teams, Discussion Boards, Torunaments, etc.

Or since DBs are more dynamic they could be displayed on the main page and the rest separately... I don't know. I'll leave the details for those that can actually use fellowships

could there be a list of fellowship rankings ?
similar to the player rankings

with the new team tournaments there will be a lot more interfellowship matches. this would be a nice way to determine which fellowships/teams are high ranked in which game types.

would it be possible to add such a ranking to fellowships ?

nobleheart: To quote you "There are Chatrooms"

Nobleheart, I'm not sure why you felt you had to strike out at me with a sarcastic remark. In answer to your reply, I'm not looking for a "chatroom" as you put it, I was just suggesting a notification of New Messages. Another popular games site has this handy feature.

Blaze

several players on step 1,standard stairs ,appear to be inactive.players can challenge and advance on "ran out of time" victories. any way to change this?

The fellowship I inherited doesn't have much activity in it, and I've been brainstorming on how to get it more active. In the process I've thought of some things that might make that easier to do.

It would be nice if Big Bosses, Managers, and Team Captains (maybe all members in general) had a settings page where they could opt to select being notified (via their message box) of events happening within the fellowship/team. Things like ...

When a tournament, in which one of the fellowship's teams is playing, begins/ends.
When a team challenge begins/ends.
When a fellowship tournament begins/ends.
When a fellowship pond begins/ends.
When a fellowship member wins a tournament outside the fellowship.
When a new fellowship team is created.

From looking at my Fellowship's page, I see that our team is currently playing in the 'Veuve Cliquot' tournament, but only because there is a message at the very bottom of the page that says "You cannot delete the fellowship because one of its teams is currently playing in this team tournament: Veuve Cliquot". Could there be a lists of events, that a team is participating in, somewhere closer to the Team name and list of players? Although one probably could go to the 'Team tournaments' outside the fellowship to find which ones our team is in, I don't see where Team Challenges are listed. Also, having these events listed might be of interest to others in the membership who either aren't on a team, or are on a different team.

Also, for all users, how about an option on one's settings page to not have the "Invite UserID to my fellowship" available on their profile page? It would save people from having to write in their profiles that they don't want such invitations, and would prevent people from having to deal with unwanted invitations in their Message Box.

blazeinshore: there are chatrooms

Lets have this variant , but i would like to see a game where is this rule.

And many ships one one place is not cool , remember Pearl harbor ?

My hardest ships for others to find and when I have them touching.

And request number 10000 :) What about the ships , where is a rule , they cant touch each other ? :]

I know this is predominately a Games Site and wouldn't want to take the focus away from that; but it is also a venue where people talk to each other away from the games as well as during the games. People talk to friends who they aren't playing just using the message section of the site. I'm wondering if it would be possible to incorporate something into the site whereby the "e-mail notify" could apply for when someone has a new unread message. Basic e-mail notification is already there as an option on "settings" ("Notify by e-mail if the opponent makes a move and I am not online") to notify when your oponent has moved, would it be possible to add the option to be notified we receive a new message when we are not online

Blaze

Is there a way to find out who's blocked list you are on? Be interested to know who is winnng that competition ... maybe we could have it Statistics too? :)

emmett: or even for some games, like Maharajah Chess, where there is a distinct bias, the ability to separate stats / graphs.

On each player's game graph, it would be interesting if a percentile could be shown of the number of games where the player made the first move.