SafariGal: They also have it at Itsyourturn!

rednaz23: What do you mean by time limit change?

If I sign up for a 14 day game, I sure wouldn't want someone to change it to 1 day!

Eriisa: I think it would only be changed if both parties agree to it, and I would suggest it to me for non-tournament games only, so 2 people don't stick a 30 day limit on a "fast" tournament and hold others up.

BIG BAD WOLF: Or atleast make it so in tournaments you can only decrease the time limit not increase.

mctrivia: i think you might find it hard to find someone willing to decrease a time limit... there's normally one person out of the two that would want it going faster...and the other is the reason for it... both might agree to going slower - but i agree that would be bad in tournaments....

redfrog: I do mean to have a time limit change approval sent to the other opponent for them to decide upon. The issue is sometimes both people want to go faster or both people want to go slower (Ex. vacations coming up, and don't want to use vacation days if possible). It is something that I have personally used at other sites, and know others that have as well. You set a high end time limit that people can't go over. That's pretty much it! I can't really see people complaining about this, either they use it or say no the proposal from their opponent! Most people will talk about it in the game before sending a time limit change proposal anyways!

rednaz23: if both people want to go faster, won't they simply play faster?

rednaz23: i agree with Vikings - if they want to go faster - they will.... if they want to go slower - it has to be for non-tournaments only - you have some people in tournaments that are limited in the number of tournaments they can play in and pick fast moving tournaments on purpose... slowing down the entire tournament would not be fair to them....

Vikings: That is a good point! But, I have noticed waiting for games that some people don't play mine right away because I am at a 7 day waiting period, while most of the other people that are on and playing that opponent are using faster time limits. Since most people organize their main page by time left, you have to wait for your opponent to get through those other games before getting to your game! So if you can drop the time limit (under theres), you can get your game in before theres and done faster! :-)

redfrog: I admit few would want to decrease the time limit. Just figured that in tournaments that option does not need to be restricted. Some may want to do it just so it pushes the game with a friend to the front of your game list while keeping your games sorted by time left.

Game Time Limit: All in all a great idea - with the right restrictions....

redfrog: I think the time limit change proposal should only be used for normal games. That is it. However, you could use it in tourneys to speed up games. The person who starts the tourney could select to set a maximum time limit. (Say three days) As long as the tourney players are at or under that time limit, no harm no foul! The point for this was in my previous post... to get your game in on your opponents waiting games list before their other opponents. Does that make sense?

rednaz23: sure...

How about the ability to search by the different headings in the waiting room? That would be sweet... Search by player, by BKR rating!, by time limit... That would be a nice feature!

rednaz23: Yep I'd like that too. It would even be better if you could set a default search in the waiting room, to filter out backgammon, ludo etc :)

an idea for a pond variation :

each player starts with a (random?) deck of cards (the amount of cards is equal to the number of players minus 1) .. each round each player has to play a card . the player with the lowest card drops out .. the rest of the players continue with their remaining cards

this is somehow related to lowering the amount of points to start with in normal ponds

another variation could be to let each player start with a full deck of 52 cards (or with just 1 color, which is 13 cards) .. maybe 'jokers' (i dont know if thats the english term) could be added as well (4 in a deck of 52 cards?)

the remaining cards of the other players wont be shown (or maybe they will ?)

Is there any time in the future plans to bring live games here , in the past it was mentioned as something that was possibly going to happen ,just curious if this is still something that may happen in the future .

I am curious if anyone would be interested in a combination of cylinder and knight relay chess.... it works really well together, makes the knight relay game even little faster.... and little more tricky. it's really lovely. anyone interested too, to support my request? thanks, b.

bunkhouse.. its a 4 player game where you can place captured pieces back onto your board after your partner captures them from his enemy. two simultaneous gmaes where 2 teamates one playing white the other playing black play two other people in chess./.. there are very specific rules but icant remember them exactly. So if One tema is A-B and the other is C-D. A plays C and A captures a rook he can give that piece to his partner to place onto his board giving him 3 rooks. etc..etc..

I'd like to see a separate feature requests page for backgammon only, since that's the only game I'm interested in

Nothingness: Very similar to loop chess, but your partner gets the pieces you capture. It would be fairly easy to implement (I think). Each game could go on independant of each other. You would need to be able to see your partner's game.

alanback: I second this idea..

I really like this idea. But, not just for Backgammon. I would like to see a general features board for non-game features. then a feature board for each game family (chess, backgammon, etc.).

alanback: There already is such a board.

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=26

Just as the heading says on this board.

Walter Montego: Not so. That board could be considered to correspond to the BrainKing.com board -- for general comments on backgammon. I was referring to a specific feature requests board. The main purpose would be so I don't have to keep reading feature requests for things like Ponds and Super Intergalactic Go.

alanback: That's not how I remember Backgammon requests. True plenty of them show up on this board, but the Backgammon board gets its share of Backgammon related requests. Considering it wasn't that long ago that Fencer consolidated the boards, doubt if he'll be adding discussions just for the purpose of making requests for individual games. The Chess discussion boards get game requests all the time on the various variant pages, why should Backgammon be any different?

Walter Montego: I don't visit the Backgammon board, but I used to go to the Chess (and other boards). I have seen the moderator(s) ask that feature requests be moved the Feature Request board.

Walter Montego: But, I do agree that chances are slim that Fencer will add new discussion boards for this.

Nothingness: You're thinking of Bughouse. I'd like to see it here as well, but it may not be so easy to implement.

Also, I'd like to echo a recent request for Crazyhouse, which in my opinion is a better game than Loop Chess.

KotDB: I love Bughouse, believe me, but I don't support it to be implemented here. Bughouse requires to be live and fast-paced to be of any fun. To play it turn-based you would probably have to set up an order of play like (boards are A,B) A white - B white - A black - B black - A white ... It has been done but I don't think that it has been fun :-)
As for Crazyhouse, I fail to see why it should be better than Loop Chess (generally named Chessgi). The only difference is that in Crazyhouse a promoted piece return to pawn after it is captured. The reason of this special promotion rule is obviously to copy over-the-board Bughouse, where you don't have time to seek for a promoted piece and you continue to play with one or more pawns which have the power of a queen ; it is already hard to remember that they were promoted while they stay over the board but it would be impossible to remember it once they are taken, so the only way to handle promoted pieces is to state that they return to normal pawns once captured.
So the only advantage of Crazyhouse over Loop Chess is that Bughouse players are more acquainted to it. This being said, it is less logical, and a completely correct user interface for it would require to place markers on all promoted pieces, as they behave differently from normal pieces once they are captured.
Rather than Crazyhouse, there are two other excellent games in the same family, namely Recycle Chess and Hostage Chess. Recycle is not hard to implement, Hostage is harder.

nabla: Recycle Chess with or without pawn promotions?

Fencer: Yes, good question, the link I gave is slightly outdated. It looks like Recycle Chess is now always played with promotion, and it is also the way I played with the inventor some months ago. Of course it makes a huge difference : pawn drops to the seventh rank are very common when playing with promotions.

nabla: Hostage Chess looks like fun, and it can be played on a regular board (unlike loop et al where the pieces change color).

grenv: Yes, and the same is true about Recycle Chess.

When a game is completed, you get a PM giving the outcome of the game (including the rating change). It would be nice if there was a link to issue a re-match. Basically, just issue a challenge to the opponent with the identical settings as the original challenge.

Summertop: Good idea. Even better with colours reversed ?

Would it be possible to list the highest rating a player has ever achieved in a game?

You can see that on the BKR graphs/charts if you're a paying member.

gambler104: for example, your highest chess rating was 1856 in the early part of this year

ok, thanks. I just forgot that paying members could look at it.

gambler104: However it would be nice to see a list of the top 10 ever bkr games for each game. Though only BKRs after the first 20 games should be counted.

mctrivia: For backgammon and other games with a luck factor, the minimum number of games should be much higher, not less than 100.

furbster:
I must be blind... I'm a paying member but can't find the charts/graphs anywhere on this site. I did a search and found that it's supposed to be on my user profile page? I don't see anything there... where can I find the charts/graphs?

cd power: On your Finished Games page, you will see little clickable graphs. Also in each individual game you are playing, you will see the graph icon beside your name and your opponent's name. (There may even be a few other places. Messages at the end of games comes to mind also. There is a graph icon next to the BKR change.)

cd power: Click Finished Games on your profile (the link takes you there; I've filled in your user ID).

hexkid:
Wow! I just learned something new... thanks to both you and rod03801.

alanback: I chose 20 because I beleive that is when your BKR becomes established. But I agrea games of high chance should have a higher BKR establish point.

mctrivia:
I thought it was 25 games?

Baked Alaskan: yes, 25

Vikings: Sorry my bad. I didn't actually look it up to verify.