I think some BK staff should be also a Go-Judge, a player who can ''judge'' the mark dead stone procedure. In this game Go 13x13 (joshi tm - faith) I'm having trouble because my opponent refuses to mark her stones as dead.

mctrivia: Its just one way our Government can put us ahead of everybody else.

Kiwiyeti: I woundered why my GPS had a +13 hour time zone

We need a GMT+13 Time zone.

New Zealand is now on Daylight saving time which is one hour further ahead of GMT.

Now my clock is showing one hour behind!!!

El Cid: The problem is the rules are whole texts. It's hard work to write the same stuff over and over again for the over a dozen chess variations (I know there's copy paste but you still have to go in and find the differences to change). And then, if someone says "Oh look, you made a mistake there" you must go through all the texts to see if the mistake is in the others or not.

A suggestion for Fencer - why not have the rules broken down in small bits that can be used to compose the actual rules page. For chess, for instance, you could have a text saying how the pawns move, let's call this text 1. Text 2 saying how the king moves etc. Then, text 30 says how the game is won after 3 checks. Then text 31 that the game starts with random positions.
Rules for 3 Checks Chess would be composed of 1+2+...+30;
Rules for Capablanca Chess would be composed of 1+2+...+31.

Of course, I know this is easier said than done. But in the long run, it could also make the complete rules easier to maintain and translations easier to do (it takes lots of motivation to go and translate big texts like the present rules).

And in an ideal way, you could even link this texts to bits of code in the game engines and so the rules would come out automatically :) (yes, I know, I'm daydreaming now)

El Cid:   I also agree with you!   There are many games I have never played let alone heard of before and it is frustrating to try to read the rules only to be told it is a variation and when you go to the original, it doesn't always help either.  I guess you need to play the originals first but you don't figure that out until you have already joined a game that you have no idea about anyway!  :-(( 

Could it be possible to create an option that allowed whoever wanted it, to see the complete rules of each game, instead of seeing only the differences between that and the reference one?
For example, if a player wants to learn to play espionage, and decides to start by small espionage, he has to go and check the rules several times (mainly to know which pieces can defeat which), but, since he's playing small espionage, he goes to the rules page, and has to make antoher (frustrating if many repeated) click, to go to the "normal" espionage rules page

On the main Tournament Link we have an option to Show tournaments created by me only.

Could we have the same on the Pond Link please

WellyWales:   I also like that idea!!    When I was new here I did the crazy thing and joined alot of tournaments and now have over 800 games in my list!   I am trying very hard not to join anymore and doing a good job at that too, I might add!  Thank Goodness!!  LOL  I do the time left thingy at times to try and get those really old ones updated but it would also be nice if I could check out the dates when started as well to make sure that if I am holding back a tournament from ending, then I could concentrate a little more effort on those ones too each day or so!  :-))   

Kiwiyeti: That did the trick! Thank you very much!

nobleheart: 4 player ludo would be nice.

rod03801: true,but thats not a problem.there are free "offical scrabble word lists"and"dictionary word databases" for just about any language.
most can be customized.so if word games were a consideration.it would not be a great problem,
---
also since we seem to be discussing game..how many also love games for more than 2 opponents.maybe for 3or 4 players.
I have often played with the idea of applying this to:
chess,backgammon,Backgammon Race,Lines of Action,Pente or Keryo Pente

Mousetrap: On the main page if you click the column header which says"Time Left", it will be sorted and have a green arrow beside it. If the arrow points down it is sorted in descending order and if the arrow is upwards it is in ascending order. Just click on the header to get the one you want

Mousetrap: sort games by "time left, ascending"

How can I make it so that I can see the game with the least time left to play first and not the longest? I have tried checking ascending and descending and it makes no difference.
Thanks very much!

"Snoopy": There is a little dog wagging his tail on there

would love a dog smilie
seems to be missing from the many other animals in the list

plaintiger: we have a game called 'boardscript' .. its like scrabble .. but you play with 8 letters instead of 7, and when you use all (8) letters you dont het an extra bonus of 50 points, but your get an extra 'double word value' added (which is often less than 50 points :)) .. also the value per letter has been changed a bit . but the rest is completely the same as scrabble

redfrog: yeah, i just use Command-left arrow (which i guess would be Control-left arrow on a Windows box...not sure...)

this may be kind of an obscure function, but it would be very handy when it was needed:

a team of mine has just been invited to a match. our team has more than the four players needed to play, so i've sent out a message to the team members asking who'd like to take part. i'm thinking that it would be very nice if, as i got positive responses back from team members, i could go to the match invitation page, check the checkboxes next to those players' names to indicate that they want to play, and then save that checked status without having to start the match. that would allow me to see how many people want to play and how many more players we need before we can start, right on the match invitation page, without having to keep an external list somewhere else, and then when we have our four players i'll already be there and can simply accept the invitation to start the match.

i'm envisioning this manifesting itself as a simple "save" or "save player status" button below the player list on the match invitation page.

thanks, Filip!

nobleheart: um...minus your suggested variation, this game is called Scrabble. you really have never seen it?? it's been an extremely popular and well-known board game for many decades. and Fencer would have to be careful how he implemented it - no references to Scrabble anywhere - because i know of one excellent website dedicated to this game that was shut down through legal action by Hasbro on grounds of copyright infringement.

it appears it can be done legally though. http://www.bugcafe.net/ offers the game and hasn't been taken down...at least not yet...

pauloaguia: thx ... ill try it

redfrog: Just hit Backspace or the Back Button of your browser. That should do it...

how bout being able to take back just the last move made - instead of hitting cancel and having to redo all the moves (in some variations - thats 5)

When someone creates an OPEN tournament, would it be possible to have it posted automatically on the Tournament board.
Some people dont advertise them or dont like writing on boards, hence the backlog of Tournaments not started.
Just a simple message Game Type and Name of Tournament.
Maybe as well, they could be set to repost themselves a day before they are meant to start if they are short & how many players

Fiona: Hey, you got more friends than just me.........

Now stop filling my phone up with texts and goto the hospital and have that baby will you

Fiona: that would be very helpful indeed

i was just thinking the other day if it would be possible to send a message to 'everyone on friends list' as when i have some news to share with my friends it would be much easier to be able to send it to everyone on my frineds list rather that copying and pasting it loads of times - or even if you could have tick boxes next to your friends names and select which ones you wanted to send the message to. Is this possible??

Thad: I agree with the idea. It would certainly help me a lot because with the current system I have no clue how long a tournament has been running and if I am holding it up. I could check every tournament but this takes much longer.

Walter Montego: I was hoping we can sort by state if they are in the United States...

On the note of state flags, I think that is an interesting idea, although where would the flag be put?

rednaz23: It should be possible. There is a Bavarian flag, so why not a Texas or California flag?

In the Discussion Boards page, right now boards are sorted according to their creation date.
I think they should be sorted alphabetically, because that way, all Brainking boards from the different languages would show up together, and it might be easier to look for one particular board as well.

Also a new category might come in handy to allow the BrainKing/Game boards (Feature requests, Brainkings, GC, etc) show up appart from the "off-topic" boards (like gardening, automotive, etc.). (By off-topic, I mean that their subject has no relation to a game site, not that their best or worse than the others)

Just a thought...

Hmm, good idea! :)

Would it be possible to put the date on games and tournaments when they commenced, so we can
see how long a game/tournament has been running for at a glance

Thad: people with lots of games always play the games with the least amount of time left , so they will most likely always get to a game when it runs down on time , the lower limit ones always jumpback in front of the longer games .

We need the date that a game was started and the ability to sort by it on our main game page. Too many users are holding up tournament games. These players often have hundreds of games going and some do a good job of keeping the games moving, but if you are playing in a 7-day/move tournament, you can pretty much count on certain players taking 6 days and 12 hours between moves every time. If these players had the ability to sort their games by start date, perhaps they'd see that they got one game going that's holding up a tournament that was started more than six months ago and they'd move more frequently in these old games.

i think it would be nice to have an extra bkr which shows how succesful you were in the tournaments you played

a better explanation can be found in some posts on the bg board :
http://brainking.com/nl/Board?bc=26&ngi=626115
http://brainking.com/nl/Board?bc=26&ngi=626348

Please Don't post tournaments here, there is a separate board for that!

Could it be possible to sort the waiting games list according to any of the columns present? Sort of like it is done in the main page...
I pay much more attention to the time setting than to the game type, and would be easier to find, in 4 pages of games, a game with a particular time setting, whatever it was. Or to easilly detect games against a certain opponent. Or...

rednaz23: I don't think that information is in your profile. But you're an american, you can check that out ;)

This would be for the U.S... but is there a way to sort players by state?

Andre Faria: and what about a Live Festival BrainKing? For example in Praha in the 5th anniversary.

oh ty yes vg yes i know that scrabble cant be copied..even clones by other names are hassled by the owners of scrabble..so I have heard anyway.

nobleheart: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=3&ngi=550086

nobleheart: I love word games too, however, the unique problem is that there are SO many languages here at Brainking!

I love words and grammar (being a writer), but I think that we have enough to focus on already. We should hone the interface and games that we already use, I think. I've seen other game sites that try to do it all, and it is like walking into a huge mess. Here, we still have a tight community. Yes, I love words games. I think that is seperate from loving Brainking.

does anyone else like word games?do we need one here?express yourselves

Fencer: I meant the highest scor anyone achieved...

Since there is no 2700 BKR limit, we could create a board with the name of the person, and the highest score ever achieved in chess, for instance.

Grenv: yes, that´s it :)

Fencer: He may mean highest BKR rating achieved?