Czuch Chuckers: Funny how you just assumed wellywales uses IE...

Czuch Chuckers: I use Firefox, I don't see Spell Checker

Firefox has its own spell checker, use that instead of IE....

SafariGal: Buy a membership then, well worth it

wellywales: LOL that doesn't help pawns who can't edit posts

SafariGal: It is OK! there are plenty of spell Checkers on BK...they are called friends

wellywales: do you mean like the one in gmail? I thought that was so cool a web based email having a spell checker. I would imagine it is difficult to implement though if yahoo and hotmail dont have it

A spel Caeker

Fencer: There is no doubt that this Game Site is and will be the best on the net...congrats Fencer, Liquid on jobs well done :)

Rococco would be fun..

hexkid: Well, it took 9 months for an answer so should I call this request my baby?

Is there any way that Go boards could be re-sized, like we can for chess boards? If I could make mine larger, I could more easily see how badly I'm being outplayed by hexkid :)

pauloaguia: I just had the same idea :)

Game notation could have one more option.
Instead of just "On" or "Off", I think having another option of "Last 5 moves" would be great.

It would be nice if on the main page that displays all the running,finished,and waiting challenges,it would have a W,L,or D colum that we can see if the match was win,lose,or draw.

gogul: wow.. that was quick!

When you are finishing a move in a game, you have the option to add a note to that game; the background of the specific textarea is gray. When you want to add a note to a game through the link "Add a note" the textarea could have the same background.

I got it:

GNU Backgammon  Position ID: u8c2AAC2jSjABg

                Match ID   : cAn5AAAAAAAA

+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+     O: gnubg

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|             O  O |   | O  X  X  O  O  O |    

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v|                  |BAR|                  |    

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|                  |   |    X  X  X  X    |     Wurf 26

| X  X        X    |   |    X  X  X  X    |     0 Punkte

+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+     X: gogul

Pip counts: O 62, X 141

I would l like the posibility of fixed fonts

[CODE]GNU Backgammon Position ID: u8c2AAC2jSjABg
Match ID : cAn5AAAAAAAA
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+ O: gnubg
| O O | | O X X O O O | 0 Punkte
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| X X X | | X X X X | 0 Punkte
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+ X: gogul
Pip counts: O 62, X 141[/CODE]

Hrqls: The only way I can think of, is to go to that person's "Finished Games" in their profile, and search for games in that set of stairs.
That's not very convenient, but I think, currently, that is the only way to find that information.
It would be a great addition to see that information at a glance, though!

is there a way to find all games someone has played in a certain stairs ?

if not, then it would be a nice addition :)

The 2006 World 4-Way Chess Championships on-line are starting soon. Use google to find the web-site. $250 First Prize. No Entry Fee. Does BrainKing have plans to add 4-Way Chess to its games? Playing at a high tech site like this would definitely boost participation

Marfitalu: Btw, the game is Ambiguous, not Ambigus.

Marfitalu: Huh? All games are available for all fellowships. If you are a Big Boss, find it at the "Ajouter une équipe" combobox.

رضا:

Fencer: And I'd like to see phonetic symbols on the site, no matter where.

plaintiger: It will be a part of a new board system.

i agree with mctrivia that it would be not only fun but very useful to be able to include images in our posts on message and discussion boards. to prevent the feature's being abused, i suggest that all posts containing images automatically require the approval of the BB or a moderator.

i'd like to see images appear small (i.e., thumbnails) in the post itself, and when the thumbnail is clicked, the image opens larger in its own window, where the viewer could use Save As... or whatever to copy the image to their drive if desired.

rod03801: Well, I feel that if I take someone out of the fellowship, they should be taken out of any future tourneys that haven't started or stairs that they are in. That's my feeling.

Phil (rednaz23)

Maxxina: I agree. I re-wrote the post a few times before posting it as I was thinking about it.
The final result is too favouring for the "forgetfull". Read "remove from stairs" instead of "retire".

Anyway, the main idea was: remove people that are timing out to avoid others to abuuse them to climb. And to clean up after those missguided souls that decide to leave the site and don't come back and have entered some stairs before leaving...

Pauloaguia : zou can go on retirement on stairs for your time of vacation , if you forget to activate it , its your problem IMHO :)

rod03801: It would be usefull even for out of fellowship stairs.
Maybe automatically retiring players after 2 or 3 matches lost by timeouts? Or when they timeout in the first step.

This would prevent people that time out on fast stairs because they went on vacations to be removed from the stairs because of some automatic mechanism.
And solve the problem of having dozens of accounts in 10 years time that are being abused to artificially stretch the stairs.

redfrog: There doesn't seem to be anyway to do this, yet. Removing the person from the fellowship doesn't even take them out of the stairs in that fellowship.
I'm sure it is something Fencer will add though!
:-)

can a Big Boss remove someone from a f/s stairs - if they are inactive and being taken advantage of for cheap wins?

Caissus: I second that.

I would like to see the whole stair, not only my step when no player is avaiable.

We should have a button for every game in the settings:
"Open for new invitations" or "Not open for new invitations".

How about the language that a player is using in there profile. This is partially a problem because many people don't write in their profile to show me that they don't speak english. I have written messages to people, and received messages back saying "I no speak English" for example. This would be excellent to see, and I think it would be easy to implement!

Thanks!

Yes... I do know the concern of bilinguals... then they should write it in their profile!

I would like the current and final record for team matches displayed on the fellowship's page. Just the total win/loss/tie record would be good. If I need details or want to check a certain game I can still go to the challenge page.

Walter Montego: Sorry about that bracket (but you found the icons).

Thanks for the description - inetresting.

I always play the original Ultima - I think nobody much plays the suggesition to limit moves.

Cartesian: http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/ultima.html

Your link has a bracket on the end of it and messes up where it sends you.

Utlimamen versus Chessmen is just that. One player gets Chessmen and the other plays with Ultimamen. Chessmen are very strong against the Ultimamen. The Immobilizer is an exception. Even though it can't capture a piece, I feel it is stronger than the Queen. Chamelions are pretty strong against the Chessmen too, though you have to agree to whether they can take Knights or not. It seems that the few times I played this game we didn't allow them to capture Knights as they couldn't move like them. IF the game was played more often and win and losses got too onesided in favor of the Chessmen, you could allow them to capture Knights as one way to attempt to balance the game. We also played that the Ultimamen could move as far as they wanted too, like in the original version of Ultima.

Walter Montego: What is Ultimamen vs Chessmen?

Walter Montego: Well I follow Abbot and turn over the Rook. But I really like the Alternate Ultima Pieces (see http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/ultima.html) which look good on flat boards or screens.

KotDb, Cartesian: Do you guys turn a Rook over for the Immobilizer, or do as we do and put a bottle cap on it? I have thought up a good design for some of the pieces, but we always have used a Chess set. If Fencer was to add Ultima to the site, I have some ideas for the icons that could be used. Though I suppose the Chess icons would work fine and a bottle cap or upsided down Rook would work for the Immobilizer.

Did you ever play Chessmen against Ultimamen?

well that's 3 players for Ultima!

Yes Walter I know the Roccoco version - looks very interesting too

Cartesian: That's how I originally joined IYT and then this site, looking to play Ultima. I believe I did request it a couple of years ago too. Have you seen or played the Roccoco version of it? I haven't but it looks like it'd be a good game too.

Cartesian: I second that.

I'd really like to see the chess variant Ultima on here.

rod03801:

Thanx for the response

Baked Alaskan: Yes, it has been mentioned.

In 2003, Fencer's responses were:

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=3&ngi=5299

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=3&ngi=60668

Has Mancala been mentioned for a future game?
Would love to see it here Fencer