andreas: plus... if a third person can see the pieces, then it would be easy for a cheater to create another account and see what is going on... thus defeating dark chess.

I would love to have the system automatically send me to the next game when my main screen refreshes. Or even an option to do so. That is, when the main screen refreshes, if there is a game that is my turn, I will be sent to that game rather than the main page.

This would also reduce network load on main page refreshes.

Hrqls: Oh, you can still ban them. But we cant delete the account - this would mess up everybody else's account. So their artifically high rating would still show even if they were banned. Thats where a indication that this is a "cheater" comes in - "cheaters" would keep their account and ratings, but would be visible as cheaters and not show up in the overall ratings. This would mean that we would keep the regular rating system without any modifications (allowing everyone to play as they want now), but still "remove" those who cheat the system.

As for identifying cheaters - that's the rub. How can you conclusively identify if someone is cheating 100%? In essence, the final authority has to be Fencer (or another admin maybe). When Fencer says you are cheating, he can remove you or punish you.

friendjosh

ps... i meant "by a value" instead of "but a value" :-)

Fencer,

Alot of the discussion around here is how to correct ratings for cheaters, but what if you just identify who those cheaters are? That is, since the ratings in all the games (even the win/loss ratios) can be "cheated", why dont you identify the users who are "cheaters" but a value (boolean?). This value would display their name in green or something so that others could see they were known cheaters. This value could also be used to remove them from ratings lists or tournaments.

If you want to be fair, you could also have this value reset after X time or stay permanent (if the account was banned maybe).

friendjosh

how about czech? :-)

actually, Jason, I have the drop down boxes for the moves. the only difference i think between pawn and not pawn is what is on the paid membership page.

Fencer, how about a simple card game like gin/gin rumy to 500 points? http://www.pagat.com/rummy/ginrummy.html or http://www.netintellgames.com/ginrules.htm

Fencer,

I have a game of tablut that should be over - by the "cant make a legal move" option. But it's still around. I have also seen another game that has the same issue. Is this a bug?

my game:
http://brainking.com/game/ShowGame?g=382407

Songbird's game:
http://brainking.com/game/ShowGame?g=370514

thanks
friendjosh