In order to speed up and play many games quickly, I went and made these changes in my settings:

YES - Show game boards at the top of game pages
YES - Show move buttons directly below game boards.

Problem is that the move buttons are not directly below the game board - so I'm still having to take time scroll each page down to submit a move.

Here is what I see (from top to bottom)

Game board, game title, finished move instructions, opponents name, opponents rating, opponents current doing, opponenets last move, my name, my rating, my last move, draw offer, message for opponent box, notes box for self, then finaly MOVE button to submit a move.

Any chance to actually get the "move" button right under the game board?

Everything is considered :-)

BBW: good suggestion. Maybe a "new messages" red flag could be at the top of the page, then the only reason to scroll down would be if you know you have a new message associated with the game.

How about a page somewhere with interesting BrainKing statistics.

For example your recent post in General chat of the top 30 Discussion board posters, and other interesting stats.

I like the idea of that too BBW :o)

It is well known on Nokia phones as Bantumi

There are dozens of names and variants of this game, depending on the country, Ethiopa, Nigeria, Haiti, Cameron...

Some well known names are Awale, Bantumi, Mancala.

In Africa, you just need to find 24 stones pro player, make 6 holes on the floor and start playing!

:-)

Yes, I already have a half-finished game model for it :-) And Vetek provided excellent graphics. I plan to add it next year.

Next year is in 3 weeks :-)

Very nice ! Later next year I am travelling to Africa and I hope to play it there as well !

Which mancala are you opting for? My preference is omweso, well clear of any others.

But can anyone tell me if/when the 'Edit' and 'Delete' buttons will return to Pawns?

Can we have a Christmas item somewhere for the holidays.Maybe a wreath or santa hat hanging from the chess piece in the background image.Or red and green cloth under chess piece.Lights around server news.Something for the holidays.

Magenta Spiral: When the new version of BrainKing is finished and launched.
Linda J: I've already got one. Unfortunatelly, I didn't have a chance to use it yet. I am overloaded.

Poor Fencer,you're such a sweety.Better than Santa.I'll get Harley and we'll dress up in those cute little green outfits and be your helpers.She's known for crazy stuff.hehe

hope less time scheduled for nonsense
means more time for proper backups after all.

I don't mind christmas decoration if it cAn be turned off.
To remain constructive: a themes selection would be a feature.

let me bet:
you haven't ever used 3D view on your chess program either. :-)

but let the people play if it doesn't hurt ;-)

protecting top-players from being cheated
should be the higher priority though for sure.

May we hope that's implemented in brainking2 ?

Id prefer a Santa or tree, reefs are for funerals arent they??

lol steve, to be pedantic, reefs are more commonly for little fishies, wreaths on the other hand... ;-D

isnt the pedantic between the uk and USA??

LOL point taken, my English is aweful

people hung them over doorways as protection against thunder, lightning and other evils. , all symbolizing fertility and everlasting life. , i think our chrismas trees represent some of the same traditions too .

Oh Linda, I wear those little green outfits all year round!! :oD

Is that what they make you wear on your ward then?

ROFL cheeky mare!! hee hee!!!! I asked for that! Now shush, this isn't a feature request!! :oP (I have to think of something to stop you picking on me!!)

that Caissus' message disappeared although refering to features.
oh well after one of his games against GI disappeared also, minor event.

Fencer, I have a friend who would love to come to this site and play Checkers. But the graphics for the pieces are rather confusing. Any chance this will be fixed in BK V.2?

          Thanksabunch :·)

             ~ MS

I know this has been brought up before but I would like to see some ladder tournaments for games like backgammon, chess, etc. How hard would that be to do?

Magenta Spiral: Good chance :-)

Perhaps we should have different waiting rooms, one for chess and variants,one for checkers,...etc.because most chessplayers are not interested at gammons or checker games.
My impression is that , chessplayers which are new on this site and see in the waiting room only battleboats, backgammon or lines,they don`t join but go away to sites where they can find more and only chess.

Caissus: How would you implement it? Adding new menuitems to the left column would make it too long and complicated.

How about clicking 'waiting games' and then have a sub-menu where you could choose between chess and variants, checkers, gammon, line games, etc?

But they still wouldn't find any greater number of waiting games. It's not as if the number of waiting games is so great that it's difficult to look through. If the desired game type is absent surely they'll put some up themselves?

subpages exist for other menu-items as well.
nice could be a rollover unfolding to different
gametypes, perhaps with a notification - games yes, no, how many.

the left navigation bar is fairly unstructured anyway
and needs a workout - ergonomy says, amount of group-items
should preferably not extend five - the so-called finger-horizon.

I'm not sure if a rollover unfolding to submenus would work for WebTV users.

Okay, than we must have more good chessplayer, than we have more chessgames in the waiting room, more new players see these games ,play and join, again more games in the waiting room ....:)

Would a feature for file transferring be possible?

What files would you want to transfer?

Pics.....i suppose musicfiles arent allowed :)

I don't understand what you mean by "file transfer". How do you want to "transfer" them, upload to BrainKing and let someone else download them?

I used to be on a "chatprogram" Paltalk ..(Paltalk.com) there you can click a users name and chose file transfer.
I have no idea how it works :) Just a thougth/idea.

Ah-ha! Something like on ICQ :-) No, I am afraid that web applications are not designed for it.

I also don't like the idea of "rollover" menus and such - making things too fancy can make it harder for some players to play.

I don't use the waiting room, but an idea - how about orginizing the waiting room by game type. For example:
CHESS GAMES:
chess game #1
chess game #2
Loop chess game #1
anti chess game #1

BACKGAMMON GAMES:
backgammon game #1
backgammon race game #1

etc......

I think possible orginizing it like that might be better then just alphabetic.

is there a way to add to our profiles a spot to post our piccy's if we wished to?

Not yet.

Well, you can certainly use HTML and post a link to your picture in the "description" area of the profile... Or am I misunderstanding?

I think grouping the games in the waiting room according to game type, instead of alphabetical, would be a great idea. But I personally like being able to see all the available games on ONE page.. Or maybe an option to check off the specific games you want to see everytime you enter the waiting room, (with the option to "see all games").

OH, and I don't know what "rollover unfolding to submenus" means, but maybe if someone describes them, we webtv users can tell you if we have seen that sort of thing working for us. A lot of times things don't work exactly the same for us, but do, in a modified way. One example is when on a computer you click something and it brings up a new "window", on webtv, some of these are handled by putting this new "window" at the bottom of the page.. and the screen scrolls down to it, and if you scroll up, you see the original page you clicked off of. (Not that any of that has ANYthing to do with the "rollover unfolding to submenus" thing, just an example as to how things sometimes work differently for us.. lol)

Well, you're assuming that people have their pictures already posted on some web page. If I just had a picture on my desktop that wouldn't help.

Right, but it is a simple work-around to make a quick basic webpage of your pic...
It was simply a suggestion.. :-)

Or you can post your pics at the yahoo group!!

yahoo group

Click on 'photo's' and post your own!

Could the description on a Tourny page be larger fonts than the rest of the page or made more obvious than the rest, or even an extra box for us to add impotant rules etc, (and maybe even be red) because it is obvious that some people dont read the tourny description and just sign up . So if an important note hits them in the face then they will know if they shouldnt be signing etc more obviously.

Steve

Well a couple of things that could be done is PUT IT IN BOLD - or do something like this: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = IMPORTANT RULE - PLEASE READ! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

But I think it would be even better if we could change the color of the fonts and such.

I think Fencer was looking into letting us use colours wasnt he BBW ?