pauloaguia: took a look at "ekobatt"? Me not yet.

pauloaguia: This is the browser, opera mini. It still needs a web2-getlost application.
I get the half of a board on the screen. Really hard to play a concentrated game against a skilled ludo opponent

Thank you. Yes the checkbox is a request, of course. Although your solutions seem handy enough, it's not for mobiles. Or not yet, this new opera feature sounds nice.

gogul: No such thing? ok, the music board doesn't work with slow connection

Checkbox to dis- and enable embedded youtube?

coan.net: Thats it. BK keep staying a normal site.

I would suggest the Globs to douple nick. At least it's normal thing on anykind of social sites. Maybe you allready know .

I had that idea a few weeks ago. But I wouldn't have time to entertain it:

To have a board inside f/s which is public, means that everyone can read it. The writers would be only the ones of the fellowship. That would be kind of a radio. Maybe some moderator-functions could be added, that some people could temporary join that radioboard for instant interviews with player, little reports about BK and all the ideas that might come, sounds and so on.
If I would be you Filip I would ask for a concession-fee, the key how you like it, partially for you, partially for the BB of the radioboard. It could allow some creative minds to get their membership in, and users could support their favored radios with some simple clicks.

Poker1964: Your friend should use the browser itself to display the site and letters bigger. With Firefox it is ctrl/scroll. The site still looks fine, but doesn't make the dice bigger so I agree to the request to have optional bigger dices.

As long as there aren't any this iZoom might help.

The programm mentioned on gc, Zoom 1.1 Freeware is very fine after some tuning, and easy to handle, and does not use to much recources. After you start the programm it might ask you to switch the color depth from 32 bit to 16 bit for a better performance, you can ignore this, at least for BK. A windows opens with several tabs. The Magnifer-Tab allows you to dis- or enable the Zoom, the size of the zoom, and here you choose how or where this zoom should appear. What I like most is the Docked Lens, at the top right of the screen a windows shows the place you have your mouse in big. Or you can choose "line" for reading texts or split the screen half normal size and half big, or even "full screen". These options slow down the performance a little. On the further Tabs you can tune more. Colors is ok by default, but you can try changes to make it more comfortable and save these settings and restore default. Cursorcolor can be changed, and there is a Reader too you can dis- or enable. The last tab "other" you choose if you like to have iZoom started at startup. Only thing I dislike is that with the programm running you can't change the size of the windows, its just a detail though, you can still move them.

When you start the programm for the first time, it opens with the Full Screen option. First thing is then to find the button "Disable Zoom", after that you can customize it, hope that helps.

mctrivia: True that normal time control and fisher clock can not be compaired, but maybe one can add something without changing Fishers clock. The normal timecontrol itself would not even change, only the voluntary criteria to join these tournaments and single waiting games with opponents who have somehow similar rythms of moving in games.

Hrqls: This is what I suggested first, you put that in much better words.

gogul: Only thing I can't answer is if the pool of 'veryfast' players would be big enough for organizing tournaments, maybe the veryfast category should already be the ones who answer all their games once a day in average.

AbigailII: you could think about categories instead of a rating, like normal, fast, very fast.
Fast would be one move a day (in average), very fast more than one move a day. Even living in a timezone of central China you could reach the veryfast category. I'm sure some really can join BK for a short quarter hour dayly only, I don't blame busy people for not making their moves here, in that case of course you wont reach a fast category. But someone who is here one or two hours almost dayly can easily reach the 'veryfast' category. How? You answer all your games once a day (makes you a fast player), now you have to hope that only one opponent moves back in the same session and answer that back too. From a certain amount of games (I guess 60, but certainly with 300) you'll be sure that this happens, in every timezone you can do this. And once you singed up for a tournament the system doesn't boot you, like you sing in for a tournament for players above 2000 but when it starts you might be below, that doesn't matter.

AbigailII: It's not a question to bann people from tournaments. You don't ban people from a tournament if you set for BRK higher or lower than something, do you? You set. And a stat which would allow a setting like time move is not thought-out yet, such a stat could be made fair and avoid many wrong conclusions made today (I don't complain). It would allow people who play more than one or two moves a day in average to play tournaments together but can't sing in in one day tournaments who knows why, because you're off the weekend or something. Playing fast has nothing to do with the timezone you live in I believe.

Thad: Or a common rating for groups of players, next to the teams?

gogul: The idea of move speed is not criticizing "slow" players. Timesetting possibilities along with the vacationdays is ok as conditions to me, only to allow high speed based turned players to have their own games.

AbigailII: I agree, might lead to false interpretations. But what if there would be a 'move speed rating' as a further setting for tounaments (for each games separate?)?. As an organizer you could allow faster player to sign up only (this rating has not to be public info).

Fencer: From the moment a player gets a game ready to play until he moves, if we had next to the amount of games in eaches profile the average of 'moving speed' given in hours of the say past 7 days. No idea how to compute it but maybe the timecontrol can recognize this as well.
I can not see further as just the information of the average time someone takes to move, I think there is no need to calculate upon a formula to invent containing the amount of games and the time one takes to move, people with a few games have this advantage but thats what fast players are searching for, and with my about 300 games going on I could compete with pawns I think, at least over the time of 7 days in lots of the weeks.

next to the games there are many ways to be competitive (actionpoints, most moves, having the biggest mouth etc. ). I could also live with a speedometer. F.i. 'on a scale from 1 to 10 your move-speed is rated 7, or 3'.

A black box for globs to read only :)

The possibility to sort the playlist by priority. First klicking on timeleft, then games, to keep the sorting by time with playing only backgammon for example..

is it possible to add Back, Forward and Refresh to the BK-context menu?

Many use tab browsing meanwhile. It would be cool if the title could name the opponent first:
BrainKing.com - Backgammon (opponent against you)
instead of opposit. Or even
BrainKing.com - (opponent vs. you) Backgammon

mctrivia: For music royalities have to be paid till 50 year after the composter passed over.

Sarah1980: It´s requested, I second that. I´ve never tried, but scrabble is played over the net at some places.

mctrivia: I love to play against opponents with an IQ of 1000

Sarah1980: Me too, but lets not think negative, we could learn it by doing

Sarah1980: how about a latin scrabble?? ;)
Any language, for german the scrabble refers to the DUDEN1, Die Rechtschreibung.

Sarah1980: Scrabble? :)

<pre>   I´m not using RTE yet, for this post I do and now the paste and copy do. But I´m not sure if the font styles works in the games.

SafariGal: This was a subject recently, I don´t know where now, but it was on public boards.

hexkid: The find useful skrips link is not available unfortunately.

I´ve talked with a friend tonight about the rating and there are some points that we want to suggest as an idea:
- After maybe hundred rated games the first 25 games that determinated the provisorial rating could be hided.
- to compare the players and their strategy in rising in BKR it could be possible to show the rating before a past game started. This means that if you go to finished games, you can see the rating at this moment of time, not only the courent one.
- to observe the BKR in comparisation with the success of a player, the little squares on the graphs that marks an accomplished game could link to the game itself.
I hope I did get that in this language ;)

If you watch a game it would be nice if the perspective woudnt change when a player moves.

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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|                  |   |    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]

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