I'd like to see (and can use) such feature like boards for analysis all possible games. I mean boards for playing by myself for training and analysis purposes. With undo/redo option for moves and save/load current position in game as well.

It would be nice to have this game here, with a variety of different board sizes. :)

Spring has sprung.

Fencer: yep. you are right :-D
as brainking is played all over the world - I just thought about the poor europeans who suffered from such a long winter!

Fencer: You could make it a function of summertime :)

diogenysos: Well, it's still a snow somewhere, isn't it? Antarctica, for instance.
I'll change it soon.

now its the 1st of may and the castle is still in the winter mode...
I guess Fencer does not believe in something like the "global warming" :-D

ketchuplover: we have to get rid of the snow!

diogenysos:
April showers bring May flowers

...it should be springtime now on the brainking castle walls! With flowers and butterflies...

this game is very popular in the netherlands under the name Keezen :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tock

I thought it was typical dutch, but it seems it is played in other countries as well .. it might be a nice addition to this site :)

rabbitoid: yep!

thechosen0ne: I think you are missing the point. All I would like is to have the option of having unlimited amount of players. Only having 4 players is too small as some players miss out due the time difference. And sometimes I can't get 8 players if I tick the 8 box.

On the main sheet, indicate with red number the number of current poker players for example

Poker tables (0/0/6) for limit/pot limit/no limit

Just to know at a glance if something's going on.

thechosen0ne: I guess I'm missing something but is that not how it works now?

example: To celebrate crosseyed reaching 60.

crosseyed:
Great idea. In single elimination tourneys your seed number is determined by your rating. The total number of players need not be a power of 2.

The formula is: start off with 2 players. The 3rd player will play the 2nd and seed 1 will have a bye in the first round. 4th plays first. Adding a 5th will play the lowest seed, #4, and the higher 3 will get 1st round byes. Each additional seed will play the lowest seed with a bye in the 1st round until there is a power of two. the next lower seed after that will play the lowest seed and all others above will get byes for the 1st round. simple right?

Maximum number of players: (box) Leave blank if the number of players of your tournament is not limited.
Is there any chance that this could done when setting up single elimation games? At present you have to put 4,8, etc.

rod03801: Ah ok ... i didnt notice ... in that case my request would be to make it more extreme as playing plakoto as another gammon type is quite extreme as well .. maybe the board itself could be another color? (like keryo pente vs normal pente)

Hrqls: It already has a different color. It is a light green border. (All the different "backgammon" games have different colored borders.)

EDIT : Well, correction, all the variations that could be "more problematic" if you don't notice, have different border colors (other than white)

could the board color of plakoto game be changed?

today i made a move in a plakoto game as if it were a normal backgammon game ... this can happen in various game types, but in plakoto this can be especially harmful

i would like a visual way which draws my attention to show that it's plakoto :)

thechosen0ne: I like this idea. As a chess player I tend to set up a physical board to do analysis, but this is tricky for Grand Chess where I don't have a 10x10 board at home!

Thom27: that would imply that separate random number context is saved for every game, but that should be doable, after all, it's just two more fields at the game.
This can be even realized without implementing any new algorithm - the current algorithm could be published and the seed number stored in that way.
Publishing the algorithm would be a good idea in itself, so anyone could verify that it is good (or not good), and stop whining (Yes, there are people who would still whine because they don't understand math, but we could just ignore those)

I request a random number generator based on a cryptographic hash function, for example SHA-1, using the ready-made PHP-function sha1().

Every game is assigned a secret key. The key is concatenated with the move number and input to the hash function. The dice rolls are determined from the hash.

The advantages:
1. this will create random numbers with very good statistical properties, practically as good as real random numbers.
2. Predicting the dice rolls is infeasible when the key is secret, even if the algorithm is published.
3. After the end of the game the key can be revealed, so that everyone (or at least programmers) can check if the dice have been rolled correctly. The players need no longer be sucpicious if the random number generator is bad or buggy.

thechosen0ne: I concur with this humanoid

Like on chess.com, there should be games where people can join one side and vote every 24 hours or so, except have one for every variant. At a certain time, the results will be tallied and the most popular move will be played.

There should be a feature where you can open a separate window specifically used for game analysis, where you can move the pieces around and see what happens looking ahead before making your move. It's already been done on gameknot.com. It would work much better with In-Game Javascript as I suggested!

thechosen0ne:
This will make it much easier for mobile users, because loading the page each time you flip through or make a move will make it extremely frustrating!

As computer science student I suggest that javascript be used in games, just like on gameknot.com. This will make it a lot easier when making a move and flipping through games, because the page won't have to reload each time.

In addition to the feature of Conditional Moves, whenever there is only one possible move in a game, that move is made automatically as a conditional move, saving time and reducing redundancy. It saves the opponent one login per forced move.

King Pyrhus:
I second that motion and completely agree! I use conditional moves all the time on gameknot.com, and it really speeds up the game.

Here's a variant that should be easy to implement: Anti Massacre Chess, where the rules are exactly the same as Massacre Chess except the first person unable to move wins!

Is there any possibility of having Conditional moves here? It would be handy when there is a sequence of forced moves etc.,both players want to play a particular chess opening etc. we don't have them at Gold Token either, at least not yet. One can always hope. :)

Aganju: yep! very good idea!

Anyone heard or played this game yet ?? Perigon

Could be worth thinking about Fencer for when you decide to write some more games

Aganju:
Agreed a good idea, I would use it as well

Aganju: +1 !!

Aganju: Fabulous suggestion!

I often find myself spending a lot of time searching through the tournament list to find open games that need only *one more player* so they would start immediately.
What about a filter in the tournament page to show only those? If you are looking for new games to start now, you sign up for some of the shown tournaments, and minutes later you have lots of games going.
I would consider that a great feature.

I am sure this has been discussed before, but I can not remember ... why not putting this small and useful red number of games waiting etc. next to the poker-tables, too (number of people sitting at the poker tables) to make the poker-section more attractive?

How about games where other players can suggest moves during the game? Both players will have to agree that other players can join in at anytime of the game. Perhaps this could work on games that require chance or skill. I remember the Kasparov vs the world chess games where everyone against Kasparov could suggest a move.

ketchuplover: I think that never should be the spirit of playing a game for fun. Imagine you playing a game of Yatzee at home and a family member states that you can never win, would you resign?

how about showing the potential highest score a player could receive after each move? If a player sees that (s)he is mathematically incapable of not losing they could resign a lost cause. And or have the system keep track and say (at the appropriate time) "You can only lose this game. Do you want to resign now? YES or NO?

Thank you for your consideration

joshi tm:

well, 20 piints for a one-move-checkmate and 10 for the very poor two-move-finish :-D

diogenysos: You don't. It is possible to capture the king on move 1 if you are really lucky ;)

Checkmate in 2 moves!

Irres Wandschach (diogenysos gegen KATIKA)

...think i deserve some extra achievement points, dont I?

Groeneveld alle berichten | linkdoes anybody know the game Salta ??

MadMonkey: Not a bad idea.

Fencer...I know you are VERY busy working on the Android Application right now but could you have a little think about something else please

I am sure it was mentioned years ago....

Can you think of a way where Fellowship Tournament Winners can Automatically get posted to a Fellowship Discussion Board rather than our Event Box.

For example, something in Settings where those messages could either arrive in the Event Box or get diverted & the contents posted as a Message on a DB of our choice (as many Fellowships have boards for results anyway)

Would be a lovely thing to have mainly for those who run Fellowships with LOTS of Tournaments & Results to let others know about as trust me once you fall behind it is a nightmare to catch up

SchlagerPower: Schlagerpower, you will not get more participants by posting your tournament multiple times and in the wrong discussion boards, you will just get the opposite effect. It is like obnoxious advertisements this way.