"Thad: If some BB removes you that way it's not worth being in their stupid fellowship anyway." Oh yes?

ughaibu: Don't you agree?

As mentioned regularly, could we please sort out some obvious irregularities. This game is marred with the allowance of consecutive sideways moves, let alone, forward and backward ones.

IYT will always win until this is rectified.

I was wondering how your comment applied to a fellowship of yours from which I was expelled, just thought it was funny.

ughaibu: If I remember you had a couple of drinks and were graphcaly protesting censorship but I requested you stop because we had an 8 yr old there. 99% of the time you were cool and you are very welcome to come to Purple World if you like but it is one of those family type places that is very vanilla. I did mention it a couple of times but I got PM complaints. I know it doesn't happen often and all I ask is that you cool it when partying and posting there.

No hard feelings.

ughaibu: of course not. You are very welcome to return.

How if a moderator would be able to displace off topic posts to the correct db?

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

Fencer: A member has recently issued a mild rebuke to the moderators of this board (although these mods have agreed that a couple of off topic posts are allowed if
a/ it is good natured banter
b/ an off topic subject is dealt with quickly and amicably)

so please take your post to the 'Mmmm, mmm, mmm board'.


Caissus Please take your post to the off-topic board.

Caissus: What a great idea! Yes! Let's keep Discussion boards for their original topic.

cariad: Well done, cariad. Btw, the "mmm mmm mmm" is my usual answer when I want to say that all mentioned feature requests will be considered.

Its a putting off off putting not off topic comment

Stevie:

It would be nice to see online icon (like the ones in the listings of my current games on my main page) for the moderators who are online for each board.

Thad: Very good idea.

Any chance of implementing tandem chess, Fencer? I'll be happy to beta test!

redsales: Another name for this game is bughouse.

yes, good point Uwe! can be quite popular in certain clubs!

Tandem chess and bughouse are quite different games as far as I know. The problem with either, at sites such as this, is that the partners can consult.

I also think that Bughouse would be a great addition to this site. On this "turn-based" site it should be played probably differently then over-the board and could be played in two forms:

1) As 4 player game (2 player vs. 2 player). Then it can be synchronized as: first players with white pieces make a move (the order doesn't matter), then players with black and so on.

2) As 2-player game, played with 2 boards. Each player plays white on one board and black on another one. Then it would be played in the following order: a) first player makes a move as white on one board; b) second player makes a move on one board as white and on another board as black (he/she can choose in which order, captured pieces are immediately available for dropping on another board); c) then the first player makes moves on both boards etc.

ok, i definitely think our signals are crossed here. In bughouse, it is really team loop chess the way you describe it, andreas?
I was referring to pure tandem chess in which wo teams of two players play the same game, which is only chess, no loop aspect involved at all. And, as ughiabu said, OTB it is usually played without consultation, that is, without one partner able to verbalize a plan to the other partner. If they can talk, I believe it is called consultation chess. Well, as with program use, there is no way to prevent consultation on BK, so there would be a gentleman's agreement not to consult in tandem, or else not regulate consultation at all. Either way it can't be enforced. So, actually, Caissus, I was advocating tandem chess because it is still linear. ie person a moves, then b, then c. No unusual waits. But in bughouse, you would have to figure out whether to synchronize play or not, but of course this could be easily programmed.

Both tandem and bughouse would be great additions. I would be happy to beta either one.

2 whom this may concern, Happy hollidays 2 u

I'm hoping that you would consider adding another variation of checkers to your large list of games which is called International Checkers.

International Checkers is one of the most popular checker games worldwide. It's played on a board that is 10 X 10 with 20 men(or checkers on each side of the board. It is known to be the second most popular varition of checkers. The rules are similiar to Czech Checkers except that the men(pawns) can jump forwards and backwards. Also the pawns can be extended to a Queen(same as a King). I really believe that this would entice a lot of new members and non-members to BrianKing(BK).

Most of my time is spent on ItsYourTurn.com(IYT), however I am spending more time on BK than I ever have before. The Dutch(Netherlands) are very big in checkers, especially International Checkers. I hope that you will add this game. Please respond to my request. Thanks in advance. ...Double O Soul

I would say that before Fencer starts work on any more variations of Chess or Checkers (I guess he is anyway LOL) that it would be nice to carry on bringing NEW games to Brainking.

Ludo is on the list, and who knows what others he has in mind. To me what would be best is aiming for new games and multi-player ones.......

How about fixing the bug in backgammon that allows only one die to be used when it is possible to use both. Perhaps that could be part of the Pro Backgammon release?

With all due respect, is there a chance that some things could get sorted without mmmmming...

There is always a chance. But I don't want to work till the end of this year.

Under a game it gives the score between the players in previous games of the same type, any chance of getting a link from those figures to the games themselves?

To the games themselves may be hard... but maybe a link the page that shows the games of that type between the two players (like this one - look at the bottom of the page, under all of ughaibu's fellowships )?

That would be fine but just the games between the specific pair of players.

Yeah.

Oh sure, show 4 of my losing games as an example...

grenv: When I posted the link I copied it from the page where it showed "all backgammon games between me and ughaibu". Looks like that page is the page where it shows "all backgammon games between the current logged in played and ughaibu"
No wonder ughaibu gave me that reply

ah yes, my mistake. All games actually, not just BG.

well, actually it has both. If you ever played BG with him it shows tables just for that type of game and under those indeed come tables with all of your games against that player...
I personally think that profile page is a bit messy. I ask one information and it still shows me everything else... (it took me a while before I realized the "show games against me only" link was working, because whenever I clicked it I just saw the fellowships (only the next day I bothered to scroll the page down! )

And now here comes a feature request:
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Can the profile page be sorted into tabs (like the Settings page, for instace)?
(Personal Info, Fellowships, All Finished Games, Games against Me, Torunaments, Unfinished Games, etc, etc, etc)
I think it would even take some load of the server because it wouldn't have to sed me all that info at once when all I want to know is that person's name or gender as often happens...

pauloaguia: I second that idea.

Does anyone keep track of the most popular requests? Fencer, would you be more inclined to add features that many people said they would like to see added?

Eg AP?!

Most popular request......AUTO PASS

Vikings:
It has my support! And I have lots of ways that would make it usable and as an option for various games, especially Backgammon.

I'd like to be able to have the date shown:
Month, Day, Year. Or have the option to put it that way. I must say that I do like the fact that the whole date is shown without any abbreviation.

It would be nice to have an idea of the most wanted games to be developed in the future: chinese chess, abalone, go, bughouse... and international checkers (this last one should not be to difficult to add, I presume)
The poll results would be presented in an independent page.

Some games won't get added to the list if you do it by popularity only. Or should some games be removed if they no longer get played much? What about games that few have heard of, but are very good games to those that play them?
Ultima and Jump Checkers come to mind.

Vikings: (from the board moderators):

cariad:

I just couldn't help it

Auto-pass. Yay. Keep shouting for it...

grenv:

I originally posted this on Bug Tracker, but Fencer has told me that it is not a bug - so, I will bring it here as a feature request. Although I can set my viewing of the webpage to reflect my time zone, the game times - including weekends and holidays - is set to the server time. In other words, there is no link between the game time and my time zone. This is a problem for me because the server is 7 hours ahead of me. This means that it is Monday for the server at 5:01 pm Sunday for me.

With that preface would it be possible to add 12 hours to the weekend time to allow those of us not in or near the server's time zone to catch up after weekends, please?

In the alternative or the interim, it would be helpful to alert novice players like myself on the faq or someplace else to this design. I was quite disappointed when I had several games expire on me Sunday night when I had my weekend settings on for Saturday and Sunday.

Thank you.