it would be nice that google ad sense would not lead to a longer waiting time ... if the responsible page could not be reached you have to wait and in some time a timeout occur.

playBunny: There are many piccies with awful grimaces which e.g. Bosko and I and other surely want to switch off.
What is the problem about making a switch in preferences: "Show other players avatars: Yes No"?

playBunny: I do not know anything about Backgammon, but in my opinion - as I said in a previous message - improvemenst should concentrate at BG in the moment.

The chess (variants) community here has a lot of games, thanks. But there are other customers.

The keyword is: Egoless programming.

Andersp:
I think Fencer added so many chess games in last time so that is it enough for the moment. I think most of us chess game players need to digest the so many new games at first.

I do not know anything about Backgammon, but I think in the next time the major improvements should belong to backgammon games.

Most of the customers are there ;-)

Fencer: But it's only up to me and nobody else.

Well, but we are your customers.

ellieoop: Let us say, an amputated wiki ;-) but let stop us here and continue on the Computer Board if you want

Jason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki - another questions and discussions please on the Computer Discussion Board

ellieoop: centralized information management vs. collaborative wiki way - both with advantages and disadvantages. (in fact I think, a wiki will solve some moderator problems here)

But this is off-topic here. I will set up a wiki and everybody is welcome.

By the way: If I would have done away the logo anf changed the Url and some other things in http://iftomm-rotordynamics2006.mdmt.tuwien.ac.at/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (in progress) - would you see this as "wiki"?

playBunny: I am planning to set up a wiki. Anyone interested?

wellywales: what about just playing unrated and uncounted games here? put such invitations in the waiting room ...

naughtypawn: http://brainking.com/game/News - 26.08.

WhiteTower: Now, what about blocking this one and only image with your browser?

WhiteTower: Either turning off background image in your settings (do not know if pawns can do that) or blocking this special image only with your browser.

WhiteTower: What about using Browser-Cache?

WhiteTower: I think Fencer decided well to use "Sonneborn-Berger" as the name ... I think in chess world this name is more known and used than "Neustadtl Score".

Nothing political struggle. I am just wondering about the "Neustadtl-Score"-English Wikipedia.

WhiteTower: No. If rename, then show both names. In Germany/Austria nobody uses "Neustadtl-Score" (Germen Wikipedia - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonneborn-Berger )

Thad: No. Sonneborn-Berger must stay. Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonneborn-Berger out - it is an usual used system.

Daniel Snyder: Abalone ... is it patented or not?

Fencer: but read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi#Notation

In my opinion it would be better to show the rows in Chinese chess beginning from 1 to 10 and not from 0-9 (and changing the notation).

What do you think?

Pedro Martínez:

I am strictly against any resetting of the BKRs.

ACK.

And it would be better to use a more fair rating system.

What about a standard beginning rating? This means a player starts with e.g. 1600 and a * (symbol for new player?

Necromancer: What about using the searching engine? You can not delete your account.

Please tell me - to which discussion board is chinese and japanese chess related?

One question: How difficult would it be to add Chapablanca-Chess? The rules are the same of Gothic Chess, except of the starting position.

And another question: Is a 10x10 Chess variant planned to install here in the future?

miuek: my "stone" was painted on the fly in a few seconds in photoshop. just to make draft.
of course other colour patterns and so on can be used and other way of shadowing/lightning. No problem.

playBunny: thanks. it is a simple "stone", OK. (In German we say often "Stein" for a figure, and "Stein" is also english stone).
OK. Tell me please which colour and pattern you wish

Pedro Martínez: Describe "stone". I do not know what you mean. And I do not knwo the rules and not exactly what is meaned. So describe me more exactly this "stone" and I can paint it.

Fencer:

a suggestion:
http://mec.tuwien.ac.at/private/mnemetz/brainking/redstone.png

sorry not much time between work ... only painted in a simple way

Pedro Martínez:
1) would be nice to see that in the privacy statement

2) i am not a complete layman. i have a discussion board site and i am a mod in other sites whith discussion-boards.
and in this sites there are separated areas like fellowships too. even not an admin can directly access them.
e.g. when i notice that fencer is online in "Political Cliches - Downing of Civilization" although he is no member there so this is strange.
Of course i know that admins must be have accessiblity to such areas, but it looks better when they do it in the database or in a way in which others can not notice it.

Fencer: On the other hand, the real admins - Liquid and me - have a full access everywhere. But that's what everyone must accept.
Then it would be nice to define that in the rules here.

myfanwy: No fellowship can be guaranteed to be private. Copying and pasting by one or more of its members sees to that.
This is not that what i mean.

Otherwise, I believe fellowships are secure. I think there was a bug that allowed non-members to view but that has been sorted out. Don't quote me on that though.
And if a non-member is an admin here? This is it what i mean.

In my opinion an admin here has to handle fellowships in the same way as a sysadmin the mails of his administrated server. I am a sysadmin and i think and do so.

A question: Is the absolutely privacy of fellowships guaranteed? is it guaranteed that not anybody, who is not member of the fellowship, can look in it?
Can it be guaranteed that this was not done and will not be done?

M132T003C: maybe phpbb can be implemented ... or what about a part as boards.brainking.com with all the boards on a separate page. Maybe IN the board brainking-specific tools except the ursername/password are no needed, e.g. online status and so on.

it would be more clearly if the discussion boards can be viewed thread-based. at the main page of the DB showing the threads and only them. clicking on one would expand the choosen thread and only this one.
Note: This would be easier for our moderator "mafia" using their weapon arsenal. ;-)

playBunny: A high rating demonstrates mastery

It depends on the amount of played games. When e.g. a player plays only a few games and gets more than 2400 at first ... it demonstrates NOTHING.

Fencer: The idea is good, but I am against it. An example: In Loop Chess I am currently playing 8 games against Noger, and my opponent and i are playing in every loop chess tournament here. so we will soon reach the amount 10 or more simultaneously played games against each other.
But it is obviously when somebody got a high rating without playing against more players ...

It is highly needed to improve the rating system in another case. How can it be that people are reaching a rating of 2300 and more with only a few amount of games?!

eagle eye: of course. i can not quickly find an english description of the sonneborn-berger system. here is one in german: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertungszahlen_im_Schach#Wertung_nach_Sonneborn-Berger

by the way: very nice to hide morphy4ever in general here. but you should not be too worried ... i saved all statements here :-)

playBunny: First danofool and now morphfool4ever?

I second: Calling moderator, come in moderator. He/she can start with your "fool"

morphy4ever: it is not here the place to discuss about walter or danoschek, but i am requesting moderating in terms of openness. The way for that is self-organizing. if user X does not like user Y, he will set him on hide and done. and if more people do this the hidden people will recognize it ... look at the wikipedia. open content - open source. the community is handling this tool in a collaboratively way.

Walter Montego:
You say danoschek is banned? I'm not sure how you got this information, but if it's true

Danoschek is banned. And my opinion about this is: this is an echo of the ugliest ages of censorships. yes, way to democracy takes more than 15 years?!

in the ages of collaborative working in wikis and other tools the way for controlling is self-organizing.

baudrillard: Fencer is required by law (under the Czech Republich Personal Data Protection Act of April 4, 2000) to provide a method to delete the account. If a database holds personal information including published words (anything written in public on a site like this is recognised as 'published') they may only hold that information with the consent of the author. I have withdrawn my consent. Therefore, my account must be deleted. This is pretty standard in International laws regarding Data Protection.

Well Fencer, that is easy to solve. Make a form for "leaving", pointing out at it that all personal and public data will be anonymized or deleted and rename the account. Let the ID be ... this ID is necessary, I understand.

By the way: WHY do you want to leave?

baudrillard: apropos banned: it would be nice to explain why people are banned ... this is more and highly needed since the inofficial feature "general ban from all boards" is used.

baudrillard: Fencer said here some weeks ago that a deletion is not possible. I can understand that - but maybe there should be a status active / inactive.

because apparently the feature "general ban" is used: what about a "general hide" feature for the individual posters?

Walter Montego: let us see it vice versa; instead of the censor^Wmod here the reader can ban (hide) posters themselves. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_organization

Walter Montego: When there's 47 posts in the little number, do you really count each post to see if any are missing?

Because of the censorship i am making regularly snapshots, so it is easy for me to recognize which of the past posting were hidden.

So, if hiding, then do it very well. I saw it not directly but in a way which surely is not planned ... "2 new" but in the board only one.

Only those people that actually wanted to view the posts would have access to them.
People can hide postings themselves. Why that?

BIG BAD WOLF: So it depends on how you look at it. The (1 NEW) message is a feature so people know there are new posts. But since the new post is hidden, then some may look at it as being a bug since even though there is a new post, it can not be read.

Exactly THAT I mean. It is a bug. And if you find irony in my posting you can keep it yourself.

BIG BAD WOLF: * * * * PLEASE - Lets get back to FEATURE REQUESTS EVERYONE!

My question: Is the case in what I asked in "[OT] strange ... but can me somebody explain this?" a BUG or a FEATURE?

BIG BAD WOLF: I tried to hide somebody for testing ... then a list appeared that I had set this persopn to hidden. I took it back and all got OK.
So I have nobody hidden here. Hey ... it is necessary to run a cron at my server, WGETting every 15 seconds http://brainking.com/game/Board?bc=3 ?!