I'm not harrassing anyone, as a site member I'm the one under attack.

couple of questions BBW....
You said that after each pass the person got another move, or turn... would they then be required to finish their turn, or would their time limit start again, allowing 2 more days or whatever to make the next move? Also, someone would not have to sit there and pass for a month would they? If they were interested in a faster game they could pass their turn right away, without waiting a month or whatever limit the game was. Maybe I am misundersatnding that point...

Auto-pass for pawns, is that the idea?

like 'allow autopass upto xx moves' - everything actually
no problem to imagine if not out for 'killing something' as our
slightly excited comrade, some could call it harrassing if repeated ... ~*~

Sure, the possibilities exist. In the waiting games area do we need half a dozen different species for any passable game? Tell me why it's worth the fuss. I prefer simplicity, if I have to decide all sorts of this and that everytime I play a game, I'll end up?playing atomic chess or something.

IMCK - It could be either way - make the first turn (and any auto-pass turns) part of the current time limit, or after the first, put back to the main time limit. (But the point would be that the player who CAN play will be able to play the game, instead of sitting on the opponenets board waiting for them to pass.) Personally, I would see after each "Submit", it would be an end to the turn so full time would be put back on, but the game would immediatly be put back on the persons game page to be able to play their next turn.

And in some games, I have seen a player not be able to make ANY moved for months at a time in that game. (Yes, just like now the player will be able to play in other games.), but its not really a matter of playing in a faster game - but being able to play in ANY game. (I don't consider "passing" as playing - it basicly saying "Hey, let the other player play again." - and not actually playing themselfs.) If a player still want to take full time to play their move, then they can still do that. It is NOT the point of auto-pass to make player play faster - but letting player actually PLAY in a game.

Good one with the Chaturanga, there are also shogi variants for three and four people which would be nice to eventually have available.

BBW..You are so darn right in your explanation, but why do you say "sorry Fencer" all the time? LOL
We dont need to apologize if we try to help him to make his site mor fun, right?

Thanks for making the site more fun by continually harping on about AUTO-PASS!!

Well Ugh...I cant help if you dont see the point in auto-pass, thats your problem.
And..i dont think you are the right man (or kid i guess) to judge people who are posting on the boards.
We have seen many (too many) dirty posts from you on this family site in the past and i suppose we'll see even more in the future.

I suppose you will too, that's insufficient by which to arbitrate the worth of my post's content. I see the point of auto-pass, I also recognise Fencer's groundbreaking acheivement with this site is membership involvement and you as a member are reducing my enjoyment of the site with this crap. Fencer has said "no", it's an easy word/concept to understand, you must've been familiar with it since your pre-speech era, why are you still going on about it?

Ugh..first...if you have time to scroll then youll see that Fencer started this "autopass crap" this time.
..and second...your dirty posts have really helped
to make these boards fun to read!

poor guy

Kindly express your sympathy practically, stop subjecting me to your trivial insistence that you be accomodated regardless.

even most bored bitching ends by sleep ~*~

It's already 11am here, I dont know what it is for Andersp, what odds are you offering that I dont outlast him?

health. ~*~

Dano...i've stopped, i dont want to risk that our Japanese/Greenland friend fills the board with more of his "nice" vocubulary :)
Even if he thinks he is cool, im sure most people dont.

Any reason to assert that I might think I'm "cool"?

I said.."Even IF" maybe i was wrong

but I'm more irritated that somebody spams the board for 'killing something' (quote)
such crap we had on numerous boards too often - it's not good for brainking period ~*~

I said "might".

You think it's better for BrainKing to have this interminable insistence that Fencer do something that he's already said he will not do?

ask him. Maybe he rather wants your "nice" words than polite feature requests from a majority of his members.

You ask him, I'm acting on my own behalf.

Just don't ask that his majesty's court be re-painted :D *offers other lurkers some poppycorn*

Fencer's statement it won't ever possibly be happening.
I haven't followed the board most diligently over the months,
but I trust that it's one of Anders' higher priorities and he would know ~*~

That's that then. What about dice chaturanga, same rules as dice chess?

chess variants uses that name, but that is definitely no dice chess ...
and not the strange spirale field neither as I know as most ancient one ...
also the chaturanga domain shows something different ... ~*~

Okay, that site's chaturanga looks different from my memory of it. I'll see if I can find Murray's entry.

Here's a link for yonnin shogi: http://www.ffortune.net/play/bgame/syogi2/4syogi.htm

Here's one for kokusaisannin shogi: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/tetsu/toybox/kapitan/kp040.htm

Out of 1500 games played.
Only 8 games of reversi (In my eyes, the main game that needs auto-pass)
100+ games of backgammon, which auto-pass could be used on.
6 games of checkers that ALREADY uses a type of auto-pass

The rest are games of chess varients and halma etc, where auto-pass would not be needed nor implemented.

So I would say Ug is being selfish.

You want to spend another day beating this particular dead horse??

When bumble asked me to moderate this board while he was in Athens he said, 'You won't have any problem unless some idiot mentions auto-pass.'
130+ posts ago someone did. Fencer!

It's put me in a bit of a pickle because it's a feature request and has involved a great deal of discussion so I can't in all honesty see a reason to moderate any posts...until now.

The subject has been done to death. The feature request has been made. If Fencer doesn't want auto-pass then he's not going to add it no matter how much bleating, begging, reasoning etc etc goes on.

I suggest if you want to debate the matter any more then do so elsewhere. The main reason is that when Fencer sees this board I want him to see feature requests and not a debate. I'm sure Fencer has neither the time nor inclination to wallow through the debate posts to find a new feature request.

Enough is enough. Please!

Nope, just wasnt here to point it out in the night LOL

Lets get the POLLS link into use

yes, since the site essentially thrives on the popularity of the games offered, it makes perfect sense to me to let the members choose which game should be priorized to be added next.

You are right, Fencer mentioned auto pass first, but i wouldnt call him an idiot :)
I apologize that the subject "lost track" and its easy to scroll and see when it happened.
A guy who made 13 (thirteen) moves yesterday and usually is spending his time by posting 'dirt" all over the boards attacked me for making Brain King less enjoyable. Sorry, but i had to defend myself.
As you and others can see im not the only one who wants auto pass but for some reason i have been picked as the "nagger".

Head on nail Stevie :)

auto pass could work on this site, but i think the key is more in finding opponents who like to play quickly if that's what you're after. Many top players on this site (including ughaibu!) will finish a game in one session.

didnt know that Ugh is a top player, sorry

no I want autopass. period. together with
2 other std bg features I've never divided ...
and, btw, ugha is a top player indeed ... ~*~

*gears up for another spammonator attack*

LOL @ Dano...your post make me so happy!!
I must be a top player too, my BKR is higher than Ughs!! and we can trust BKR cant we? :)

Alex II 2621
EdTrice 2425
mandirigma 2080
mandirigma 2093
Savage 2088
ughaibu 2566

Andersp these aree the top 6 according to the ratings page...and on second look your name isnt on there at all...:( or are you referring to just one game type?

I only play backgammon :)

..and i was kidding about top player..i dont care at all about BKR :)

i must look at your profile :) and thank you :)

that's what I call a top-player unless I happen to
specify different. ooops b4 eye 4get: *swell* ~*~ 0:)

NeekyNake,

You just listed the top players at the first 6 games on the list. What did you think that list was?