Since the site is already translated to portuguese, I would like to be able to insert the portuguese flag in my fellowship, "Tugas", because that´s the main language spoken there...

What about a feature that marks messages read/unread? background: i am translating into german (finished - but many messages with suggestions, corrections etc. come in) and it would be helpful to mark some messages unread again (as a simple workflow)
maybe interesting for all - not always you can or want answer immidiately

AbigailII: One more:

• add sorting options for that table</li>
  

Could we please see the date when a game invitation was placed? Sometimes it would be a usefull information to know how long I had an invitation pending before withrawing it.

Oh, and why is it that when viewing a game invitation I placed for an opponent I am shown a message stating that I cannot create a new game because I'm a pawn and am out of free slots? The game is already created, that's no longer a problem ;)

MidnightMcMedic: hehehe.. Yeah Medi... I use that term to have a separate style then the ordinary one.

AbigailII: Clearly cloak mode is not designed to protect your SSN, not to mention that probably more than half the people viewing this don't even have one.

Peeps are those marshmellow chicks you get at easter to eat LOL

No, honestly I think she means people.

ScarletRose: what is a peep??

ScarletRose: I have nothing to hide. Standard question for people who have nothing to hide: what's your social security number?

those who use the cloak mode.. shouldn't be able to see those of us not using cloak. Good idea, that would save me some screen estate. That is, if the line of the last page requested by the browser someone was using was replaced by nothing, and not by something indicating you're not going to see it.

EdTrice: I don't know about the dagger.. but, heck.. I don't use the Cloak Mode.. let's face it.. being able to spy on peeps was one of the reasons I liked this site.. I have nothing to hide.. I will still look at peeps profiles and view my lists of friends..

In my opinion... those who use the cloak mode.. shouldn't be able to see those of us not using cloak..

Czuch Chuckers: You're right, I would need to click the checkbox each turn.

grenv: What is a perpetual draw mode anyway?

I have never seen a way to make a draw offer last more than one turn...

Since we have a "cloak mode", I would like to know if there will be a "dagger mode" as well.

Caissus: It isn't always obvious that the draw was offered, I've missed it occasionally. If I think the game is a draw I will offer every turn until my opponent answers with some indication they saw it and declined.

Caissus: a draw-offer is very useful, a weapon, often used psychologically ... but never perpetually. it is against the game ... maybe not so experienced player or non-chess-players do not understand this ...

It is a kind of annoyance,unsportsmanlike and
and an unusual behaviour between serious chessplayers.

chessmec: ok ... i can live with draw offers only be made when the last move didnt contain a draw offer ... but as grenv i dont see the problem with perpetual draw offers either .. you can accept them, decline them, or ignore them

maybe you want an option to get the draw offers in your message box or not ?

What's the big deal? You can just ignore the offer and move anyway, right?

fungame: May be a check box "allow draw offers" could be useful for each started game, with default value yes. And perhaps some choice when declining draws could be "decline and ignore further draw offers" or something.

no, a draw offer is often done for checking out what the opponent want ... maybe he will play to win ...
draw offers should be allowed, but not perpetually

Hrqls:

sometimes a draw offer is a gentleman like way to finish a game

i often offer a draw, but never perpetually ... draw offers should be available, but not one move after first offer ...

This is a nice addition to pond games, but it doesnt take you to the next most important gamer to play, time wise! I think it should be set up to take you to the next game that is due to time out first. (I think now it takes you to the game that was started the longest ago) Or maybe even expand the options to resemble regular (non multi player type) games, where there are many options on which game to go to next?

May be a check box "allow draw offers" could be useful for each started game, with default value yes. And perhaps some choice when declining draws could be "decline and ignore further draw offers" or something.

Walter Montego: that would create games which are in a draw position .. in which both players will continue making their moves ... never finishing the game .. and hoping the other will time out some day .. neither of them would dare to offer a draw as the opponent doesnt have to accept it and can just continue to prolong the game

sometimes a draw offer is a gentleman like way to finish a game

chessmec: It'd appear that you missed my posts against draws in Chess on the Chess discussion board. I agree though, that it is wrong to offer draws in this manner. As I proposed, once you offer a draw you should no longer be able to win the game if your opponent declines the draw offer. Just implementing that would curtail draw offers immmensely. Plus, it'd make just one draw offer a game possible, since you could no longer win the game if you asked for a draw, the moment your opponent asks for a draw later in a game that you offered one in, neither of you would be able to win. Nice simple solution to the whole draw offer business. Not just for Chess, but for all games. Plus games that a draw is not a possible outcome should not have a draw as a possible outcome.

Perpetual draw offers should be prohibited!

In some games my opponent offers every move a draw. What about a feature which stops an every-move-draw-offer and make it available only after 2 moves after the last offer?

rod03801: I've never seen WebTV, but I'd have to agree with Walter, if you can't see the whole page that's a bug in the browser I would think, let them know and maybe it will get fixed!

rod03801: This WebTV won't let you scroll the whole page? I think I'd take it up with WebTV and maybe consider getting a different service if they can't or are unwilling to help you out here. Considering all the pages that I need to scroll to read, I'd not like that at all.

Fencer: not really..

Grenv: I agree.. an option would be best. If I could easilly view the entire tournament, I would not like to see it split up either.

danoschek: It's useless, not difficult. From my point of view.

Fencer: I agree, it would have to be an option since I don't think that would be a good experience on a regular browser.

and I guess the additional setup button for bb
is so difficult that you even don't dare to comment ? ~*~

rod03801: Uh huh. Yes, it can be done, of course, but wouldn't be easier to switch to a normal computer instead?

I would like to see the larger tournaments broken up into mutliple pages.
With WebTV, there are tournaments where I can never view my section. (Specifically, the $50 tournament.) I can't even view the whole thing after turning WebTV off and coming back with an empty cache!

harley: wooohooo did you say party!? :oD I can't drink though, one guess! :oD
Thanks, it's good to be back!

Hi Lamby, nice to see you back!
And to stay on topic I request a welcome back party for Lamby! No? ok, I know...

harley: hi Harley! Yep thats exactly how I remember it!

I always played not having to take a piece, and no pieces were forfeited either. If there are two kings left on one side, and one on the other, the two kings force the single king back against a side until they have nowhere left to move except into a position where the opponent can take them.
If the players have one king each, its a draw.

The Idea was just a suggestion... I thought it would be nice to have a non forced rule until you have to move or resign...

bumble: Same here. But it would be interesting to have the option of not having that rule.

I think the list of challenges should be accompanied by checkboxes, with 2 buttons; "accept checked" and "reject checked"

Fencer: That was the rule when I first started playing checkers (draughts) years ago - if you didn't jump a piece then your piece was forfeited.

EdTrice: I've played it that way for 55 years and never seen what you mentioned.And if it did happen that would be a draw which we get in forced move playing anyway right

I think the rule says if you refuse to jump when you can, you automatically lose the piece which should be jumping.

fungame:

If we were playing a game of checkers where jumps were not forced, and we were down to the typical minimal endgame where you had 2 kings and I had 1 king, you could not win the game.

I am not making a claim based on supposition, it is a fact.

If I don't have to jump you, when you try to swap off my last man, I just move to some other square.

If there is no way to conclude a game, then what fun is there in playing it? Would you want to play a game for a few months, only to have it drag on ad infinitum?

It would be like playing a game of baseball without walks or strikes. There is no consequence for 'doing nothing'.

Kinda funny answer, I think he meant separate variant of checkers for beginners, what would you say about other flawed variants like Mahajarah chess, Open pente, Five in line etc. then? There are many such games here where experts say one side has forced win. Conclusion: if you don't like them, don't play them...

Daniel Snyder: played checkers for many years not using the forced move rule

There is only one problem with that, and it is a big problem. When you swap all the way down to 2 kings against 1, if jumps are not forced, there is no way to win the game.

I noticed that with a lot of peeps on hide, like on general chat, only 10-12 msgs appear
instead of the preset 75, no biggie just never've been able to count before by one view
so I thought I'd share that observation, as it's probably no proper bubblesort ... ... ~*~

Daniel Snyder: Yes i agree to.I mentioned that awhile ago

Daniel Snyder: yes I have also played that way too, infact I think thats the way I initially learned checkers