ajtgirl: I love BK my second fav is:
www.jijbent.nl

all the games there are great

Fencer: thank you sir!

..I was just thinking..a while ago i suggested a simple design-turn based strategy game might be fun...like capture the flag or paintball.

an after thought...does this exist? a simple design-turn based strategy game based on:
tanks
or
pirates

nobleheart: yes Tank Battle

I'd like Chu Shogi on this site. Where I play it now is way too much trouble. Brain King would make the playing of it very easy compared to the play by mail service I use. I'm sure the other players on that site would come over.
I'll need the directionally marked pieces to play it though as I can't read the Kanji marked ones.

I know we can join tournements which have random games, but would it be possible to just put out random invites in the waiting room, which we could accept? If so perhaps an extra column in the profile page for random games wins/draws/losses and tourneys won?

Hello all, I was wondering if it would be possible to show in one's waiting games list the BKR range that is acceptable for one to join the game. For instance, the following is currently shown:

Japanese Chess Normal game any player black 1 day

I propose the following:

Japanese Chess Normal game 1800 <= BKR <= 2200 black 1 day

What does everyone think?

It would be nice if the Shogi notation shows when a player waives promotion of a piece. I beleve this is usually denoted with the character = after the move. When replaying my games over an actual board, I've been confused by this, so I figured I'd bring it up ;) Of course, the ultimate suggestion would be a .psn/.kif/.csa export feature, but I'm not sure the format is standardized enough for this.

onigoroshi: I believe that if the BKR is set when first setting up a game, any potential opponents not within that range would not see the game on the waiting list.

skipinnz: you are right... Current mode is set that you only see the range of BKR

right, my point is after setting the game up, *I* cannot see the range of BKR ;)

onigoroshi: I think it would be nice to have that information somewhere, and the waiting games list on the main page seems like a good place for that. Sometimes I delete a game and set up a new one, because I'm unsure if I remembered to set the correct range the first time (especially if it takes a while without anyone accepting the game).

whopper: yes, at minimum, I should be able to see my games in the waiting room, complete with specified game parameters!

onigoroshi: But your waiting games already appear on your main page. Would having your opponent's desired BKR range listed there help?

Walter Montego:When you see a public invitation, it means that your BKR has been in your opponent's desired range!  Otherwise BK doesn't show you the invitation at all.

King Reza: Yes, but that is not the point. onigoroshi wants to see the parameters that he specified for the games that he sent out.

onigoroshi: Now in the waiting room you only see invitations that you can accept - and this seems to be very useful to me. What Walter proposed seems to be the best solution: add a column in the waiting games section of the Main Page.

Mr. Shumway: That's what onigoroshi suggested as well("one's waiting games").

And I think it's a good idea instead of the misleading any player.

whopper: Ok, I misunderstood the term "waiting room" then.

And your link doesn't lead to the right post I think. If I am right, you wanted to reference this one

Mr. Shumway: No, I don't think your link would make sense in my weird/bad sentence either.

What I wanted to say was that displaying the desired rating range in your list of waiting games, instead of saying that "any player" can join, would avoid misunderstandings such as this one.

If this doesn't make sense either, I'll blame it on poor english and good wine.

I'll shut up now. :)

whopper: Now it makes perfect sense!
Enjoy the wine ;)

perhaps onigoroshi is forgetting to click the box that says "allow unrated players"

Walter Montego: i heard "en garde" in chess tournaments decades ago... [queen check]

*BOB*on*Bush*: i, of course, agree!

Or at least an asterisk denoting a member* of the -Quick Players Club on the "Public Waiting Games" page above "Time Control"???

Public waiting games player is online Quick Players Club Member*
Game (your BKR) Event Opponent (BKR) Your color Time control (?)

we want some new

Fencer is your to do list published any ware? If not could you publish it and put a link to it from this fellowship. That way we could look for what you are already planing to do before making Feature Requests. Also could you make a list of things like autopass that you will not do?

Has Boggle been suggested as a word game? It would be nice to have a one-turn game for when we're waiting for moves to be made....
This is one site, which seemed pretty simple: weboggle.shackworks.com - there's a new game starting every 90 seconds or so.

mctrivia: That wouldn't be wise because the list is not constant. Some entries occasionally disappear and are replaced by other ones.

Sarah1980:

$ONE$: en passant is right (and used in FIDE rules). "En garde" is for musketeers before fighting (which is also appropriate for chess duels!). Tycho lost his nose in a duel!

How about a litle checkbox in everybody's profile? You could check that you agree that the system would do auto-passes. Then the player who knows what an auto-pass is wouldn't be surprised and the player who doesn't know what a auto-pass is would not check the checkbox with this feature. Everybody will be happy, including Fencer.

GiuiT: What a brilliant idea. I second it! (unless we can actually implement it for EVERYBODY - including the ignorant!)

in backgammon, you still have to roll the dice even if there is no possibility to get in (when all places from "1" to "6" are occupied by at least two pieces of the opponent.

Maybe it could be possible to save at least that click? player still can write a message, still watches the current situation on the board, but does not have to be dissapointed by rolling the dice (and perhaps watching a good roll) before passing anyway...

hm, what do you think? or did you all discuss even this change before???

diogenes: I thought the same - until I remembered, that you only have to roll the dice in matches with doubling cube, and that you could offer a double instead of rolling the dice - not very common I guess, but the rules offer you this possibility.

Mr. Shumway: It's not exactly uncommon either. It happens after you have a lot of pieces off but get one knocked back and then completely blocked.

gambler104: If doubling is an option, then autopass is clearly not going to kick in. However the choice should be "double" or "pass".

Where doubling is not an option we should autopass.

GiuiT: Thats a fantastic idea FENCERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Tycho: LOL-
why did 'musketeers' fight with swords ;?] Touché!

grenv: Well in that case, I suggest to place that checkbox in every game. There is already bunch of things you can click on. One more for auto-passes couldn't hurt.

GiuiT: Superb Solution! Fencer??????

Fencer,
Here's a new feature that I think would get well used: collective game support. I know there are at least 3 collective games going on right now, in the shogi, xiangqi and the go fellowships (here's the GO one: http://brainking.com/jp/Board?bc=2713). It would be neat if it could be done both inside and out of a fellowship. It would have a sign-up system like a tournament, except that people joining partway would be fine (based on whatever criteria the collective game owner sets up - could be limited # of participants, could be membership to a fellowship, rank limits, etc).

The key parts are:
- sign up
- keeps track of votes (you could even have the votes make an actual move on the board to cast their votes)
- owner can change votes and moves before they're made final (for reason such as symmterical equivalence in go; see the above mentioned collective game of go forum for details, or for eliminating people that aren't playing seriously, etc)
- system automatically counts votes and shows the winning move and plays it

There's lots of other fine details we can discuss if you decide to implement it.

Currently, we're doing it where the 'owner' of collective game and the opposing player play a game together, and the owner makes move on behalf of everyone casting text votes in the forum.

(I suppose you could even make it so both black and white could be composed of voting teams).

krinid: Mhm. Sounds interesting. But it's a bit tricky to implement. Maybe a good candidate for the August Action advantage.

Fencer:
Yes, I realize it won't be something you can just add overnight, but something to think about anyhow, in the longrun.

Mr. Shumway: I also agree it is a good idea. Additionally, when I click on the game, I would like to see the rating range and further details there too, such as Pawns/Knights etc allowed or not.

Fencer, keep at it, you are doing great.

in the message box is there any way of having an option to save a message in a seperate folder as i have a few i would like to save but more often than not when im clearing out my messages i delete them by accident. not sure if this would be possible but seems a good idea.

Fiona: that sounds like a really usefull idea. It definately has my vote LOL

volant: thank you - lets hope Fencer thinks so too

Hello everyone: Is there any chance that the site could have a Scrabble type game? If it did then maybe there is a way to set it up where the game shows in whatever language a player selects. That way we could play anyone who is a different language then we are. Thank you for taking the time to read and reply to this post.

Amandakmg365: Of course there is a chance.

Amandakmg365: Different languages would be practically impossible since the words have to be the same on both boards to continue the game.