I keep getting bumped off the site.. and I only have not even 2 hours to finish a tourney game against my mom.. I have already timed on 3 games today.. argghhh..

ScarletRose: Never heard of infinite loops?

Fencer: Just a interesting question i thought. In Dice Chess, does the code generate a random number when picking which piece to move either:

Between 1 and 6

Or

Between 1 and 16 (or all possible pieces available to a player)

MadMonkey: How can a normal die show other number than 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?

Fencer: It can, BUT a computer can pick and Random number between 2 points, as in 1 & 16 at the start of a game.

If it picked a number between :
1 and 8 = 1 Pawn
out of 9 & 10 = 2 Knight
out of 11 & 12 = 3 Bishop
out of 13 & 14 = 4 Rook
a 15 = 5 Queen
or 16 = 6 King

In other words your chances of moving a pawn are greatly increased at the start, and most the way through the game. It would make for a totaly different game. I thought the 1 to 6 way was the way it was happening

But then if you did it that way, could not really be called Dice Chess, but could be another version (Dice Chess 2), at least the maths percentage would be right LOL

MadMonkey: But then you would have a 16 sided dice. Could be cool for a variant of course, but not to replace the rules, cause these are fine this way.

Fencer: Roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Marvel superheroes, and etc.  use 4 sided, 10 sided , 20 sided, percentile dice, and etc.  It wouldn't be impossible. 

MadMonkey: Ah, I see. The code is generated only in 1-6 range.

danheg: It would be cool, even odds, but that would be whole other gamplay.

MadMonkey: It's not necessary, to have a more-than-6-sided die, but, I think, it would be a good idea, to have the probabilities weighted this way. That means, it would be 8 times more probable to roll a "1" than a "6", and 2 times more probable to roll a "2", "3" or "4" than "5" or "6". What do you think?

Another question according this game: Is it possible to castle or to capture en passant, if the die and the usual chess rules allow it?

joshi tm: Like you say, the odds would be normal Chess odds as such, as in which actual piece may move. In other words, if you had advanced your king pawn, the odds would would be 8-1 they you would have to move the King, where as now its evens.

The game would be totaly different, call 'Dice Chess the Revenge of the 16 sided percentile dice' or 'Percentile Dice Chess'

percentile, love that word danheg LOL

Hieronymus: Thats exactly what i mean

Yes you can castle & Kings can capture Kings, havent tried en passant yet

MadMonkey: Yes, en passant could be played also ( on a 1), I think you should castle also on a 4.

Marfitalu: Ok, when the dice shows 4.

'Percentile Dice Chess' or just 'Percentile Chess' there you go Fencer, an instant new game, and you only have to change the code slightly

MadMonkey: How should the probabilities be affected, if there are already pieces captured? I think, if there are e.g. 2 pawns captured, there should be a ratio of 6:1 instead of 8:1.
And why this should be a new game? The changes would be minor enough (most players wouldn't notice them), that they should affect the current version.

Hieronymus: Of course the probabilities would change as pieces are taken, as in Chess, if 2 Pawns are taken, odds are 6-1.

Its has to be new, i think the change is alot. I have played alot of games of it now, and one thing that crops up alot is having to move your King for no reason, just because the Kings pawn square is free for example. At least with an odds change, the chances of things like that happening are not evens LOL
You may say small, but there was only a small change in Ataxx & Assimilation, but from experience i know most people prefer Assimilation.

MadMonkey: I have noticed the same annoying necessary to move the king. And just that detail is the reason for my voting to change the rules. A new variant will lead sooner or later to a situation, that the old variant wouldn't be played anymore.
Btw., how would you explain the differences between the two variants to the average player?

Hieronymus: The idea of a new variant has been proved with Assimilation (was called Ataxx when released). When the Ataxx rule of a knight move was introduced Fencer released a new version called Ataxx, and the old version of Ataxx was called Assimilation.

As i mentioned, most people prefer the Assimilation version, so even by introducing the proper rules to a game like Ataxx, does not mean people will prefer that version, even if it is the proper one.
The games of Dice Chess is still new, so its a good time to do it.

As for explaining the rule difference, good question, i would ask BBW to write it, he is good with words

MadMonkey: You could aslo turn the things around in

Ambigious Dice Chess...

Whats that? Each time, mark a field where to play, but you can only mark an ambigious field ( where 2 or more pieces can go), then randomize which piece to go.

Do the rankings of a new game get put up automatically after so many games or whatever? i noticed that chevresi doesnt show any?

does any one have an explination to why i can only play 19 games at a time i have 19 games running no invitations and im not in any stairs but when i try to start a new game it wont let me couse it says i am full but the main page says im playing 19 with one open spot?????????????????

deadbunnysRfun: Have u signed to a tournament that is waiting to start?

not that i can find ive been looken through all that stuff to try and figure it out

It would be great if you could split to first page of the Statistics page by head game types (e.g Chess, BG, or other)

deadbunnysRfun: you have two running tournaments maybe that is why you can only have 19 games , not sure though

Wonder why Oldies but Goodies never makes the top visited boards list? I know there were 11 messages on it today.

Dolittle: It does make the top 30 just doesn't stay there long.

heavenlyemma: I know it does but hasn't in a while.

Dolittle: Beats me then lol

How many finished games does it take to get an "official" rating?  ;)

Gr☺uch☺: (*)The player who finishes at least 4 rated games of one kind (everybody who defines a new game can specify whether the game will be "rated" - the result will be calculated for BKR - or not), earns "provisional BKR" displayed by italic font (e.g. 1870). After finishing 25 rated games of one kind the provisional BKR changes to "established BKR" and is displayed by normal font (e.g. 1853). If you complete more games, your BKR is more accurate because is based on more results.

joshi tm:      Thank You  ;)

Dolittle:I have noticed as well, that you dont even have to leave a post in a
fellowship, even if it just gets looked at, that counts too .

Czuch Czuckers: which rankings page do you mean ? when i go to the ratings page i can see cheversi at the bottom of the chess game types

deadbunnysRfun: did you try to start 1 new game or a match consisting of more than 1 game ? or did you try to join a tournament ?
are you in a pond ?

Dolittle: only 1 message per unique id per day will count

so if i post 3 messages on there, and you 4, then we will only add 2 to the total count for the visited boards list

(i think)

Dolittle: The number of messages is irrelevant. Only unique visitors count.

Fencer: Any idea when you are back home?

"Andersp: Yes sir, as you wish sir, just when I am back at home sir. And thanks. "

Andersp: Of course, I have already started to work on it. It doesn't mean it would be finished immediately, there are many other things which must be done as well.

Fencer:Unique visitors?

Dolittle: When you go to see the messages on a board you are counted as a visitor. For the rest of that day you are not counted again for that board, even if you keep going there to see new messages.
What counts is the number of different visitors to the board (readers), not the number of posters.

pauloaguia:I am so confused..I thought if you are not a member of said fellowship, you can't go there and read messages.

Dolittle: You can go there but you cannot read messages.

Dolittle: you cant.. thats not what they mean hun
they mean each person from the FS can only post once a day to make it count no matter how many times a day they post in that FS

Rose: Ok

Rose: Close enough. Except that it's not the act of posting that counts but the act of opening the board page. You don't even have to post to be counted as a visitor, just open that page.
So, if someone posts a post just before midnight (server time), and then 100 people go there to read it the next day, it may become one of the most popular boards, even if no messages are posted for that whole day...

Getting rid of fellowship Board.
Go into the edit for that board and change the name to a period, then change who can read and post to king, all that will be left is a " . " that most people will never find and if they do they cannot go to the page anyway, but you know it is there in case you want to start it up again someday
I saved this in my notebook. I don't know where I got it.
I want to get rid of two boards and the messages. Where do you put king if that is what we are to do? On that part on who can read the board it has choices..no place to write anything.
Thanks for any help.

Pbarb2: Vikings posted that....

Pbarb2: You can't "delete" boards - but you can do what you said (change name of board to "." - so most will not find it.

To delete all messages, either click delete on all messages, Ask Fencer to do it for you, or probable the best - click "Edit" and change the read access to "Brain King" - that way not even you can see the messages in the board (so it looks like everything is gone)

Then just post in the description of the board "This board is closed." or something like that.