Landrover:
We can see this variant explanation in my wall.Please visit my wall.

Can brainking feature the Pieces Function Exchanged chess variant ?

playBunny: Yes indeed.

playBunny: To get carrots, I'm sure.

Mélusine: Did you borrow my magic wand ?

I did - but I didn't use it to give myself a Rook!

crosseyed: How lovely for you. I think you have a secret admirer? Hugs know what I mean?

Lol. Yes, the door is open to that theory, among others.

crosseyed: Sometimes, I forget where I put it and some people take advantage of this situation.

Mélusine: Can anyone borrow it?

playBunny: Did you borrow my magic wand ?

playBunny:
Re: Good question! It came out of the blue, a complete surprise.

How lovely for you. I think you have a secret admirer?
Hugs know what I mean?

heavenrose: who got you membership?

Good question! It came out of the blue, a complete surprise.

heavenrose: i am earn them

I was wondering how...

heavenrose:   I have already paid for it.

heavenrose: Someone more deserving than me, perhaps. :-)

Are you buying brains or earning them?

Carnie: I joined fellowships as a bishop. :)

Ah, That's interesting. So it's the fellowship info that needs to corrected. :-)

Doris, heavenrose, Carnie: Thanks for the kind thoughts but it's okay. :-) I only mentioned winning the Rook as an ironic joke. I'm in one of those decades-long tourneys but BrainKing goes on "suicide watch" starting next year. It's amusing in a way (yet sad as well) that some of these ancient tourneys might outlast the site itself.

(Just as an aside, I'm not sure that Bishops are eligible for Fellowships. The Paid Membership information suggests that they are but inside a Fellowship it says "You cannot join the fellowship because this feature is available for Brain Knight or higher membership level")

playBunny: Love those hugs..}  Hopefully it won't take that long for you to become a rook again.  I just posted a Backgammon Prize Tournament in one of my fellowships.  

Doris: Thank you. It's nice to be missed, although it makes me feel a bit guilty, too. ;o) Big hug, ((((((Doris))))))

I might start being more active here when I win a membership. I'm in a prize tournament that's just started a new round so, with luck, I'll be a Rook within three to five years. ;O)

playBunny: :}  So that's where you've been....I have missed your humor here..:}

playBunny: Okay. We have something in common too lol.

playBunny: impressive :-) thanks for the info. i would love to have this blocking filter for the discussion boards of brainking. i like to argue when it's worthy as well, but sometimes for me personally it isn't and i could avoid my nerves to blow up by using such a filter, but very rarely.

thx again for sharing your experience

speachless: "did you find such a filter that you use for daily gammon also for brainking? i'm interested in it"

I do have tweaks that I've written for BrainKing (and also Pocket-Monkey). One works on the Waiting Games page and calculates my BKR changes for wining and losing so that I know whether it's worth playing. Another was an auto-pass for Ludo ... because "someone" didn't give it to us! ;o) Another that I enjoyed when I had a membership was tweaks to the rating graph page that made it easier to change the date range.

I haven't done any tweaks for the BrainKing forums. It would be fairly easy to add the poster-blocking but I'm the kind to argue rather than hide someone. More likely people would be hiding me (except that I write helpful and humorous posts as well as flaming ones, so people would be in a quandary as to whether to hide me or suffer the arguing, lol).

It all became moot when I moved my "internet home" to DailyGammon as I stopped being active on the boards here.

crosseyed: "That was very clever of you to create that system for your own use."

Thank you. I've long been tweaking sites to make them easier. My best project along those lines was putting a graphical interface of a text-based vampire game. That might have become something that people would pay for but I lost it when my computer died and I didn't have the heart to rewrite it. Since then there are loads of programmers who can do what I do, as you can see by all the apps on your phone.

"You could sell that to people who seriuosly want to block people."

There's a handful of people who would have been interested and maybe a couple of them would have bought me a drink but it would be no money-spinner.

playBunny: did you find such a filter that you use for daily gammon also for brainking? i'm interested in it

playBunny: That was very clever of you to create that system for your own use. You could sell that to people who seriously want to block people.

crosseyed: "That is interesting that you can use that system in DailyGammon."

It's wasn't part of DailyGammon itself. I added it myself as a browser extension.

"To be honest if I block someone who I really dislike I would not unblock them just to be curious."

Yes, I agree. a really dislike would a really hidden, goodbye and good riddance. But the content-only hiding allows you to take a break from people who are generally boring or annoying but might not be worth the full abracadabra.

playBunny: That is interesting that you can use that system in DailyGammon.
To be honest if I block someone who I really dislike I would not unblock them just to be curious.

crosseyed: "Besides I am sure they would be tempted to take the person they have on block, off block to read the post that may or not be about them. "

Mélusine: "Ah yes it's true. It's twisted but possible !"

It is indeed a possible temptation, and true.

I used a forum-hiding facility at DailyGammon. It had two levels. With the high setting, you can't see the person's posts and you don't know that they've posted. With the low setting, you see their name but not what they've posted. You then have the option to click each message individually to uncover the text so that you see what rubbish they're spouting that day.

In use I found that those posters who are on the high setting stayed hidden because it's too much hassle to unblock them, check the forum and then block them again. On the low level it's more about how curious or bored you are. If you click on a covered post and it's the usual rubbish then you don't need to bother with the rest.

Brian1971: I agree

This 10x8 variant published in 1998 features 2 Crowned Knights which combine the King and Knight into one piece. It is placed between the rook and knight. It is set up like Janus Chess and has shorter castling (just 3 moves). Seems like a well balanced game and a nice companion to other 10x8 games that use Rook Knight and Bishop Knight.

chessvariants.com/large.dir/contest/royalcourt.html

crosseyed: Ah yes it's true. It's twisted but possible !

Mélusine: Well put Melusine. Besides I am sure they would be tempted to take the person they have on block, off block to read the post that may or not be about them.

My opinion (and only my opinion) : I'm ok to block someone for a private game with me, or for a private message to me. I don't agree to block or to be blocked on discussion boards. I want to be able to defend myself if someone says something wrong about me. Anyway, if the discussion was wrong about me and if I couldn't see it, I'm sure that my friends told me or made a copy for me about what it said. So, I'm sure that the idea to block on a public board isn't efficient. Furthermore, it would be also very complicated for the boards of team games or boards of ponds where everyone can say something. Also : I am always respectful with people on public boards so I have no problem. I think that the real problem is the respect for others.

Brian1971: Half of your suggestion is already there, it's called "Hidden Users" and can be set on a per-board-basis. These users still can seen your posts, but all of their posts on that specific board are hidden from you.