Fencer:

You asked me to show other game sites, and gamespy is a game site, it also does reviews. You have to download their software. I agree they have a bigger team, like Yahoo. However, these things are not that hard to implement. I am not asking for professional top of the art designing. All I am asking for is a simple text based window so I can chat with users I play with.

I offered to redesign your Shogi pieces without anything in return, cause I feel we can all improve the service for free if we share our talents. Now if you want to exhibit the behavior "I will do what I want to do for everyone when I want to do it", chances are you will not get the user base you may want. It does depend on how you want to run it. There is no "I" in the word "team". I am not trying to attack or threaten in anyway, I like the site. However, if a friend asks me to play a game online, which do you think I am going to choose to play on? One that allows for what we want, or a game site that has only what you want and is restricted in scope of what my friend and I want?

Yes, in the end, it is your choice. However, I think it is in your best interest to listen to others cause they have the choice to come here or not. Right now, I would much rather play shogi in Yahoo where they have a chat window. I am trying to help you get a system set up so we can come here instead.

http://marcuswebsite.googlepages.com/yahooshogi.gif (chat with game capability)
http://marcuswebsite.googlepages.com/kurnikshogi.gif (chat with game capability)

Kurnik doesn't have the community that Yahoo has, and Yahoo doesn't have the English support. However, they do have the ability to allow users interact in chat with each other. I find this a weakness at BrainKing since I don't see it.