How about to have a number of unique players with established BKR close to the game name in finished and running games statistic pages? ... and may be number of games per name played in the last 1, 3, 6 months?

How about the top rated players win their weight in chocolate? BKR points = grams.

On the statistics page of running games, when we click on the game type wouldn't it be nice to be taken to a page showing all the running games of that type.

Interesting idea.

or something similar please.
Abalone is good as well.

And how about also adding a page that displays the number of completed games of each game type? (or even on the same page - either in another column beside the "running games" column or in a separate chart altogether)

Right - the whole splitting of the completed game database by year thing...

It would probably be better anyways to have a separate page for number of completed games of each game type separated by year - one for 2002, one for 2003, etc (like on players' profiles)

I still like to see abalone on this site...
By the way... How can you put your picture on the site...

Daniel : you must got Membership , knight or rook , or better , than you can add a picture :)

Number of completed games can be seen for each game type already, on the respective "game rules" page.

is it possible to see how many new messages there are on a total discussion board .. i mean on the whole group like 'line 4 and variations'

here i am again .. sorry to ask so much :)

would it be possible to have a link to the game rules about which the discussion board talks ?

is it possible to sort the game list ?

as there are more and more games the list is now getting quite long and sometimes hard to find a specific game type/variation
(of course i can use the 'find' option of my browser, but a ordered list would be nicer :))

maybe its possible to group the list into several groups which can then be opened into the sub types like the discussion boards :)

(thats what you get from a newbie on this site ... btw a newbie who thinks its a great site :))

It's on your settings page, about half way down the first page

ah! thanks! ... sorry ... somehow i didnt see that one :)

there is a link on each game(as you play it) for the respective discussion board.It is followed by a red number,indicating the number of new messages.

what i mean about the link to the rules in the pages of the discussion board is that it would be nice to see the same link inside the discussion boards. like when i am reading a message in a discussion board which makes me wonder about the rules about that (variation of that) game .. i can go directly to that link instead of having to go through 2 other pages first

to explain the show of new messages per discussion board : right now several discussion boards are grouped in a collection (for example all variations of chess) ... now i have to open the group first to see if there are any messages at all .. i cant see if from the main screen in which i see the groups .. right i am using the link to expand all groups .. giving me 1 large screen with a lot of boards which show me the nice red number .. but it would be nice to have the groups non-expanded and show the total of the unread messages in the boards inside the group.

i might be asking for too much though :)

Yes you do ask a lot of questions for a non-paying member. LOL. If you truly want to get Fencer's attention buy a membership. Money helps make improvements happen more rapidly. You seem to enjoy the site and wish to make it better so why not make a monetary contribution today?

we were all non paying members at one time,and all should be allowed to clearly understand the benefits of different membership levels.
Ever wonder what it would be like to be a "brain rook" Brian? ;-)
maybe we can even find a can of that "gold" spraypaint! LOL:)

Yes we were all non-paying members at one time. However my point is simply if you wish to influence change and help make it happen, buying a membership can help that effort. Yes I have thought of being a brain rook as well. However when I look at my situation and how much time I can actually spend a day on here playing games, I realize that I would not get the full value of paying for a rook membership which is why I am a knight instead.

we all have "special" circumstances.
good luck in your games ;-)

Perhaps some pawns get enough value out of being pawns too. I dont think trying to goad ppl in to buying memberships is the way to go at all.

I do not feel that I was trying to goad anyone into doing anything. I was a non-paying member for a long time. However I was also unemployed for a quite a while too. However I didnt try to influence change here until I became a paying member of the site. The bottom line is without funds th site cannot continue to grow. I have no problem with someone being a brain pawn at all. However if someone wants to bring change for the better, it makes sense to contribute to the change.

Not to mention how much more enjoyable the site is when you are paying member. Being a paying member opens up more fun in my opinion. If someone enjoys the site as a pawn that is fine. However there is much more to enjoy from fellowships to more tournaments and more games that you can play. I would just simply encourage any pawn who loves playing here and wants to get more enjoyment out of it to at least try a 6 month brain knight membership. Not to mention the money can go toward improvements for the website.

... but if there issues or problems which are keeping a pawn from paying, why expect that person to pay up just to be listen to. If a pawn has a good idea about improving the site, and Fencer thinks it is a good improvment - then great for everyone! And at that point it could even be enough to get the pawn to pay up. So I think we should encourage all suggestions from everyone.

Is a list of advantages all the extras that we get and the pawns cant see or use . then that might encourage a few extra pawns to buy membership . this could be on the log in page or a link to the left of here ... maybe there is one already but i havent noticed one .

there is,Jason..."paid membership"
although the VIP services are a bit vague ;-)

yes but that only covers amount of games ect ... im sure knights /rooks ect get more things ,like drop down boxes for example for move and goto next game , maybe pawns have that aswell not too sure now

actually, Jason, I have the drop down boxes for the moves. the only difference i think between pawn and not pawn is what is on the paid membership page.

Knights and above also have things like a Notepad, and the hide feature in the discussion boards. Those are 2 that I can think of off the top of my head.

if you like that feature...as a paid member,you also get an opportunity to select whch game you are going too!

I didnt know pawns couldnt hide people...I knew they couldnt edit their posts..oh hey! theres another one! ;-)

Actually FriendJosh i think we have a bigger dropdown box than a pawn does (unless things have changed since i paid for membership)

heh .. wow i couldnt imagine how many reactions some simple posts of a simple pawn could 'inspire' :)

i didnt mean to demand those 'changes' .. it was more like some features which other people might think useful as well .. maybe something to put on a future 'todo' list

i am just on this site for about 2 weeks .. trying things out .. to see if i like it .. which i do a lot .. otherwise i wouldnt even think of trying out the discussion boards and post something in the 'features' section (which is open for pawns to post in :))

its free to anyone to respond with any opinions about the points i brought up :)

i might become a paying member ... right now i am in a bg tournament of which the first prize is get a 1 year paid membership :) .. so far i won 2 games .. lost 0 .. but i am about to lose at least now :)

thanks for reading my posts ... will check back soon for more sponses :)

That's how I got my membership. Good luck.

just lost my first game .. but i see even you lost one .. so there is still hope ;)

good luck to you as well, i hope we meet in the tournament :) :)

New timeout system and automatic vacation have been added.

...of who is hidden from that board by moderators. If you are banned its obvious. If you are hidden, you dont know

Does the automatic vacations work for all users? (Pawns, knights, Rooks, etc..) who have vacation days left, or is it just for Knights and above?

Plus I know there was talk at one time to limit the amount of automatic vacations to only a certain amount of days at one time. Was that put into place, or let say if I'm unable to log on, will up to 30 days of vacation be put onto my games.

Thanks!

Only for paying members.

Right now Waiting games are displayed alphabetically in groups of fifty per page, correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's more logical to show them grouped by game type, rather than just in alphabetical order.

what is full unicode support?

Or since there does seem to always be a lot of games in the waiting room, maybe a filter to just show a certain game type - or even a group of game types. "Just show Chess Games" - to show all chess & variants. Etc... etc...

I had in mind something similar to the first thing you see when creating a new game. But a filter can work too, good idea.

I would like to be able to filter them by time per move...

I think a good idea would be to have a check box beside each waiting game, so we could go through all the waiting games and check the ones we wanted to accept, and then be prompted to accept each one of them... This would eliminate the hasstle of going back through all the games each time we have accepted one, and starting all over again.

Great idea IMupChucKing! I second that!.
(the checkbox next to each game in waiting room..)

About the running games; brilliant, thanks. What do you make of this game: 116566 no move for a year but not timed out, 20 day/move time limit. Am I eating the wrong mushrooms?

ughaibu: The new timeout system will finish them when it's turned on (on Friday).

Okay.