srnity: It would be so usefull.

I am always open to play Pawns old and new (mainly), and try to help them with any brainking questions and show them about as such.
Its not very encouraging when i start a game with one, then i do not move for a few days= as it gets lost in my hundreds of games.
I wold probably use that next most after my Goto Next Team Tournament game, and the more time they play, the more they will get to like brainking i hope and join.

MadMonkey: I play alot of pawns, and I get alot of invites from pawns that I've played previously, probably because I really try not to leave them waiting for me to move as much as possible...it would just be so much easier to find them without scrolling down a list looking for them & your right, the more you play, the more you might want to pay

srnity: This is the third time i have requested it at least. To me its common sense that the more they play the more willing they will be to pay

As you say, those Pawns we play at present have to wait a long time just for one move, therefore they are not getting to know much about the games or the site itself, so lose interest

MadMonkey: Three times is not enough. Try to request once more.

MadMonkey: Actually, you are lucky because you usually request simple things. It is already done.

Fencer:

Well they say three times lucky

Thankyou

OH, talking of simple things, could we have a different colour dot for Big Bosses in the Team Tournaments list to let us know which Tournaments have actually got one of our Teams in. Its a pain having to open each one just to find out if the Captain has entered it yet

Going back under my rock now lol

man! some people are just never satisfied with what they get!!!

lmao@ madmonkey

MadMonkey: ahem, if YOU were on the teams, you would see the green dot.

Eriisa: Well, have to catch Fencer when he is in a 'Lets write some Code' Mode

I have mentioned these things before, but never know if Fencer sees them or they just get buried lol
And they are useful things

Would be nice to have a copy of Fencers 'Requests to be worked on' list

Fencer: Awesome - Thanks - No more hunting em down

Eriisa: Ahem, i gave up my Team places so others could play

But i would still like to make sure all my Teams are in

This is NICE, it even sends me to games in tournaments where I'm playing a pawn

srnity: Yes, great eh..........

Me thinks that Fencer can have prize and a drink

I would like to be able to "move and go back to my stairs" please?

Here i am again
I have thought of one more useful Move and Goto option for you to write on your To-Do list Fencer.

The only thing not covered now is Move and Goto next Non-Tournament game

That would give you options for everything i can think of lol

MadMonkey: i can think of one more. Move and goto game with least moves.

mctrivia: hmmmmm maybe, but not one i would use, with a lot of games, there are plenty on 0,1,2,3 etc....
Most moves (which we have) i can understand , but i only use a few of them myself, which is the idea. Have all feasible options and let people select the ones the use from the list.

Family Man said about move and goto his Stairs, well you can goto next Stairs game.
I would probably use that in the Context Menu, which i think is great and understated here on brainking. I have none of the left Menu in my games so pages loads a bit faster, BUT all the Main places i need to go i have in the Context Menu at the top of the page, just Hover and Click

mctrivia: How about "move to random game", "move to game closest to victory", "move to games with least amount of pieces on the board", "move to game with opponent with shortest name", ... ? ;-)

AbigailII: ROFL - I that one

how about " Move and get yaself to work/bed

Oceans Apart: The option with bed would be great ... please, Fencer, will you write it for us ?

trohat: Move and Goto Jail, do not pass Go, do not Collect £200

Right, enough messing or uncles rod & taz come tell us off

Well, the one I have asked for 2 or 3 times would help get rid of SOME of the "Move and go to" requests.

Move and go to Next Flagged game, where you have an option in each game to "flag this game".

This would be helpful for games you want to play fast that don't necessarily fall into any of the current categories, or games you are especially interested in, for whatever reason.

rod03801: I have asked for that as well.
In fact when hexkid was here, we had it in his Greasemonkey script. (he has some great stuff in there)
Underneath every board was a clickable link that said 'Add as priority game'

Once this was clicked it would then be flagged by the system as such, so when the game got back to your turn to move it would appear basically at the top of your list.

In fact it appeared twice in the drop box we have, the list was split in two.
All priority games would show as being top of the list, BUT also still be in the proper place as your list is determined.

Fencer: Thanks so much--that's a great addition to our "move and..." options.  I'd recently gotten to the point where I'd no longer challenge pawns, because I hated to make them wait for my replies.  But that was a sad solution, because I'd much rather play anybody...any kind of piece...any rating (or even none at all).

Just one small request today

Could we have a Preview button for messages as well please, just so we can see if any links (well and spelling lol) are ok

MadMonkey: I remember him saying once it was in the works.

Eriisa: I will go get it from the works and take it to Fencer then

Silly monkey if a funny mood today
Hey, i am dog sitting for a few days. Took him for his first walk of the day this morning, nearly killed me, he is an ex greyhound

Hmmm, thats not a Feature Request , ah, got it, could i have a trolley to sit in please so my doggy can pull me on his walk

well, back to the games i think

(me think monkey has lost the plot)

Fencer: Please think about this sitiuation.

Well, I'm coming home after three weeks of non-BK activity, well, say, holiday. I log on, a few time outs, but I knew that; those were games with a no free days time control. But there is something else; the number of new posts in the BK main Discussion Board was over 200 and the the active duscussion three weeks ago is totally buried.

So here my question:

Have you ever thought of using a discussion board system, what almost every forum uses, with seperated subjects and so on?

I just want everyone to know that I am NOT the monkeys uncle! lol

tazman7474:  True.  But are you the Unkeys Muncle? 

tazman7474: I bet your Nephew is glad to hear that!

I would suggest the Globs to douple nick. At least it's normal thing on anykind of social sites. Maybe you allready know .

gogul: I know some sites, the moderators are "hidden" and such - but at least for myself personally, I don't plan on doing anything on-line that I will every need to hide from - if it is something I would not want to say or do myself, then it is very simple - I just don't say/do it.

coan.net: Thats it. BK keep staying a normal site.

gogul: LOL, I am too possessive of my name 'Eriisa' to play under any other name.

Take Two: I just got a message from a Bishop i look after (bless here little cotton socks lol) asking if when her membership runs out (thats was today) she would lose games over her 20 etc... being a Pawn again.

Needless to stay i have sorted her membership out, but it would be nice to get a reminder from the system to let us know when any Bishops or Knights that people do look after, when there membership was about to expire

Could the "more" button, on main page, keep the filter. It's frustrating when you put the filter to show the games against a specific opponent, and if they are more than the "visible by settings", if you press "more", you have to look by that opponent anyway, because you get a view of ALL games

El Cid: Yes, I would like to see a little "tick" box up there where the filter that says something like "Keep this filter until unticked".

Not only does what you describe happen when clicking "More", but also if you play one of the games and go back to Main Page. There are times when I'll want to see all of a certain game type, and choose individual games of them to play. (Not necessarily ALL of them, or not just ONE of them). I go back and have to filter again. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to be able to just keep the filter a certain way, until I want it to go back to the regular way.

rod03801: It would also be nice if when doing this the play next game button only used those games that have been filtered

How bout a way to show approval or "kudos" regarding a post without having to make a new post. The Laugh it Up" brings this to mind.... you like to let the post-er of a joke know you liked it or laughed when you read it - but posting a smiley or comment after each joke gets tedious and board clogging.... so how bout a section on the bottom of the post where you can update appreciation and such...

I have fallen early on in my Ponds, which have a 7 day time span. That means that my rating will be reduced by something like 250 points in around two months from now. Any wins I might get from now on won't make a shred of difference to that eventual outcome.
Therefore, I urge fencer to calculate a player's rating, as soon as he/she falls into a Pond.

tonyh: I'm not sure exactly how the Pond ratings work, but I do know that they are based on the ratings of the other players in the pond. Is it possible that everyone needs to be finished before the ratings can be correctly applied?

tonyh: The more completed games you have, the more stable your rating will be - which in turn, if by the time that pond is over, if you have already finished a few others - your rating change will be less.

coan.net: Is Dice Chess an exception?  Despite having finished a lot of games, my rating swings (both up and down) still seem substantial.

wetware: it shouldn't - but the ratings take many things into consideration - your current rating, opponents current rating, amount of games you've played, amount opponet has played. But I don't claim to be an expert on the ratings or anything.

coan.net: Our FAQ says that ratings are based on the U.S. Chess Federation system.  But as far as I know, once one has an established rating in the USCF, the rating formula computes changes by ignoring any differences greater than 400 points between the ratings of the 2 opponents.  This used to have the effect of limiting rating changes to ±32 from any single game--even if I were to miraculously defeat Hikaru Nakamura...or were to lose a game to one of my cats (more likely, I think).

wetware: The ratings are quite funny... How can a BKR of 1800 in the dice poker games put you in the top two or three percent, while a 1800 for backgammon means you are in the bottom ten percent? That tells me the starting point for games are all different, and they should all be the same. Otherwise, how can you accurately compare people on the statistics page?