Is it better now?

Count me in to My Favorites Tank Battle is above Freatured Requuests and Backgammon & Nackgammon are at the bottom

I will look at it. The strange behaviour is probably the result of several recent database changes.

I asked him why they seemed to be never in any particular order, and changed constantly, he said they should be alphabetical and he'd look into it. That's the last i heard of it.

They are not in any order for me either, and seem to change frequently, although not every day or anything.

My favourites also were in different order today. It does not really bother me that they are not in alphabetically order, but if they start switching around - that does mess me up a little. (and when I still do not get notice of post in this message board - just have to come and keep looking for find them.)

Hi fencer
This is the second time writing about this on the boards and hopefully you will have time to reply to it this time.
The Favourite boards to the far right of our game pages.... I had originally asked if there was a way we could list them in the order we preferred.. as in alphabetically etc... today I notice when I came online they were in a different order then yesterday ( not alphabetically and not by most messages) any idea why they changed, how they changed or how I can change their order??

Thanks

I have not been on here much recently, so I don't know if this has been mentioned or not.
I would like to see those who are making tournaments give a descriptive name in the title of your tournament so we know what type of game (or games) will be played. I know that I like to play certain game types, and don't want to have to click on each tournament to see if the game I want to play is offered.
So, for example, rather than put something like "Stingers Rock'em Sock'em May Tournament", try naming it "Stingers Rock'em Sock'em Backgammon Tournament". If you have more than one game type, name it something like "Stinger's Rock'em Sock'em Tournament (All games)"...or if it is a specific style of game, try this..."Stinger's Rock'em Sock'em Tournament (All line games)".
This would help make finding an appropriate tournament a lot quicker and easier for me (and I'm sure a few others as well).

Thanks a bunch.

Seems I'm getting the same problem too, although it appears to be intermittent. Doing a refresh helps, not sure if thats consistent either.

I was just getting ready to post a message here about the fact that I don't see a count of new messages when there actually are new messages here! As I am catching up on the messages, I see a couple posts about it!

Anyways, just wanted to say, ME TOO!

So far, I have only noticed that this board has the problem. I have grown used to just checking it periodically, since I know something will be new and I won't be notified of it...

A board just for bugs and errors would be good. I started posting the current bug since it affected this board (for me at least)

And no, removing and re-adding did not fix the problem for me.

Fencer, would it be possible to have a board specifically for posting bugs and errors or should we be posting queries like the one below on the brainking.com board? It would surely seem logical to have queries and bugs directed to one board in particular, for ease of finding what the bugs are and also to get some idea if more than one person is experiencing the same bug.

Just a thought. How about a bug-board? :)

Keep up the good work Fencer. It's so refreshing to see a site owned and run by someone so conscientious and efficient!

Blaze

Having the same problem here BBW, but with several of my favourite boards not just this one.

Even after I removed them and re-added them, problem still persists.

Did doing that it solve it for you?

Blaze

I got the hint. LOL. If that was your only problem then you are lucky. LOL

Hum... it must just be me... (and of course I did not know there was a new message in here until I come and look!) Ugh!

Well I just removed this board from my favourite boards, and re-added. Now just to wait for someone to post a new message here (HINT HINT) and I'll see if that helped fix my problem. :-)

Sorry BBW mine is working just fine.

I have this board on my "Favourite boards" list, but for some reason - I do not get the "XX new messages" for this board.

I seems to be working for the rest of my favourite boards, but not this one.

Anyone else having this problem?

jondownie: I agree about the pgn thing...

I'd like to evaluate my games

me neither. I didn't know i won the 5-in-line or the backgammon. Too lazy to check I suppose, lol.

WOW that is a kool page.. I had no idea I had won that many tournies.. Never had a clue! neato!

Very nicely done!!

I was wondering what your plan is for the greyed out search function. I have a suggestion, if this isn't what you are already planning. I would like to be able to type in the game number of a game and hit search andh ave theg ame load. That way when someone says "check out this great game of pente that I played" I can easily do so.

jondownie: Sure, later. It is at my TODO list.
Pioneer54: I've just added Winners page, check it out. I will improve it later.

I think not only should each game type have a separate list of tmt. winners, but after many of them an exclusive list should be initiated showing the most prolific winners in each game type, and maybe one including ALL tmts. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to arrange.... I made a similar proposal to IYT some time ago, but (as usual) they ignored it

Can we have pgn files of finsihed chess games please. It can't be that hard.

there should be a page iof tournament winners, as there is at IYT.

Well I was getting ready to write what tournament(s) I win in my profile.... but if there was a list in our profile of tournament wins, that would be nice.. (and save me time in editing my profile) :-)

Currently I don't think anything happens of special when you win a tournament - unless you go search the finished tournaments, you name is now in yellow! :-)

Good point BBW, what does happen if we win a Tournament (not that i will lol), does something show in our profile or anywhere ??
Would be nice if it could be shown somewhere, maybe a seperate board 'hall of Fame' ?? who knows :)

I found the "finished tournament" that I was in on the bottom of the Tournament list page.

When I went to my profile, and choose only to look at "finished" tournaments, Nothing shows up.

Just thought I would mention it so you can look at it when you have some time!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

I think it would be nice if the winner of a tournament to get a message saying "congrates on winning" or something".

Why I say that is I usually just play games, and I don't really pay attention on how I'm doing in the tournament. As I look through some of the past tournament, I noticed I won one of them - Cool! I can see how I could have missed this if I did not go searching.... and will get worse as more tournaments finish and the list gets longer and longer.

Just an idea... thanks, and keep up the good work!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Think yourself lucky you get so many invites!!! lol :oD

Any way to possibly do the invitation games like the message page… meaning instead of having to accept each or decline each, then move on to the next… there could be a checkbox beside each invite that you could check off and then click either accept or decline? Would save the hassel of having to do one at a time.

Just a suggestion.

Please could we have a link where we can get the .pgn for the games we play. This is a highly useful feature of itsyourturn.com as it allows you to run th ames through all major chess programs so you can improve.

As sundance says this has been dicussed before on this board & Fencer is already dealing with it.

Afetr the boats arrive lol :-)

Dmitri and Kevin: IYT`s version of go-moku (13x13 board and 2nd player wins in case of a draw) are NOT real go-moku rules.

15x15 is the real size and a draw is a draw.

Having said that I must add that those changes do make the game better and even somewhat suitable for advanced players. They do that by taking away some of the 1st player`s advantage. Most importantly they make it impossible to use some of the sure win combinations.

But the 1st player`s advantage is still very big even with those rules.

PRO-gomoku has the same 2nd move restriction as Pente. That restriction evens up the game much more than those IYT rules. I remember Gary Barnes saying that in Pente (with the restriction) 1st player still wins in about 80% (?) of the games between good players. The similar is true with pro-gomoku. This is in great contrast to sure win (on a 15x15 board).

So that restriction is very important in go-moku too. Probably even more important than in Pente (I have never heard of Pente being a SURE win without the restriction (?) ).

So it really is pro-gomoku that we need to have here...and Fencer already has it on his TODO list.

And I hope Renju is there also. (?)

good opints, I forgto about those. 5inline should be replaced by Go-moku, because 5inline is really just a fake version of gomoku.

There's actually 2 other differences as well.
1. In go-moku, over lines (6 or more) do not count. In Five in Line here they do count.
2. In go-moku, it is a win for player 2 when the board fills up. Here it is a draw. (Although the board filling up is very rare anyways).

Wolf, what difference does it make where the stones are placed? It is the same game. The only difference is the board size.

<Here I see Pente and Keryo-pente but I don't see Go-Moku!!

Five in Line is different then Go-Moku...very different because....
on Five in Line you place your pieace in the square grid which is not---> go moku. Go-Moku pieace is on the grid line like the game Pente and Keryo-Pente. So we have pente and keryo....where's the go-moku???? Five in Line is ok but it's not the classic(go-moku). Let me know when you are adding this Go-Moku on your Features' List. :o)

Everything is written down :-)

some of the games on mindsports.net look interesting, such as havannah or congo. Some of the explanations of the rules are terrible though. I tihnk it would be interesting to have congo and havannah here on this site.

Fencer, have you considered putting on grandchess? It is similar to gothic, which is already here, but IMO better than gothic. Rules and details can be obtained at mindsports.net

i would like to hide everything on the bottom and top (using rows)

also... opponents turn placed on another page or hidden... just a simple wish :-)

I dont know if anyone has said this or even if its worth while but in my opinion it would be easier.

In the message box when you view a message… theres the option to delete it or reply… any way of making a next or previous link also? Or even have it go to the next new?

Just a suggestion.

Dmitri: Right :-)
Big Bad Wolf: About logging out, the problem is that this process requires the database access to store the logout event. But I can add a possibility to logout from "upgrade" page by a simple "delete the login cookie" script. Added to my TODO list. About Favourite Boards and Fellowships, would it help if I add an option to hide these lists from the right column?

hmm, I think they were talking about chinese chess, but I might be mistaken.

First: I play games from a fast public computer part of the day - which I always Logout before I leave the computer. Earlier today when I got ready to leave, I ran into a problem - the site was temporarly down for an "upgrade". So that left me with 2 things I could do: (1) wait for who knows how long until the site comes back up so I can "logout" or (2) leave myself logged in and hope no one gets in there and messes things up.

I'm not sure if it is possible, maybe something you (Fencer) can think about - but possible being able to logout while the site is down for upgrades? I was lucky that I had an extra 5 minutes to wait and logout, but sometimes I do not have the extra time to wait.

Second Suggestion:

I really like having a list of Favourite Boards and a list of the Fellowships that I belong to on my main page..... but I find it king of wasting space to have both the Fellowship & the Fellowship board listed. Would there be a way to "combine" the two - that is in the list of Fellowships thats on the right of my screen, put the (2 new) message there instead of having to place the board in my favourite just to find out there are new post there.

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Fencer: Chineese checkers is like halma except played on a 'jewish star' and has upto 6 players

Thank you Fencer

Rabbits2: Nope, it was caused by the database overload. Will be fixed soon.

zilch is a great game..tho better played with a few friends and few drinks into the wee hours i think :-)