that is why it should be a user choice. Beginners can choose not too turn it on.

The other reason (besides the inability to chat between moves) was that the board can change substantially in one move (for example, in reversi (or even backgammon)) that it could be even more confusing to new players who maybe just learned the rules. It could (and likely would) also cause many many many complains / comments regarding "My opponent is cheating." or "This game doesn't look right." or "Why did my opponent get to move more than once?" or something like that.

Maybe Fencer can give us his reasons again. I should think that at least 90% of the members would like an auto pass feature.

That is a feature that has been discussed on here even long before I first came to the site. (Because I also brought it up. *EDIT - Just looked, did that on Feb 18th, 2003!)

I believe one of the original reasons Fencer did not want to put it in is because it would take away an option to chat in between moves.... or a conversation could get lost or something.

But it would be a great option - I have been playing a backgammon game recently where in 20 moves, 19 of them were me just passing.

Anyway, it could work. For example, if I make a move, and the next person can not move, the computer lets me keep moving until the other person can move. Then when the other person comes on line, they will get a message like "You could not move for XX turns, would you like to go through each move or go to current move?" - Then they could go through each move if they wanted, or just skip to the current move which is ready for them to make.

But, bottom line is Fencer does not want it, so O'well.

I was wondering if it was ever brought up about having the Tournament Creator have the option of setting a 1...2...3 wins in place of the standard 3 wins. I myself prefer 1 win, or have all the games rated which would help alot! At least the choice should be up to the Creator of the tournament! What do ya think Fencer?

i agree, the site is very good. I pay here and no longer pay at iyt. I am just saying that I would prefer that feature, especially in games that take a long time as it is (e.g backgammon).

i find it annoying sometimes too!!!! when i am in the middle of talking and then get the message about the turn being passed!!!! I certainly would not like to see it here...

This is a great site with so many great features... be thankful for what you have got and the speed fencer works at to get things sorted and also the replies to us all :)

I agree, auto-pass should be an option at the user level. If I could make my turns automatically pass, or make the only move available then I would choose to do so.

No.

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Ha! Fencer will have fun translating that!

wl it trans txt mess 2?

hahahaha!! dat bee wite medik

Chatty and I would like to respeckfully rekuest a checkerspell thiny mabob for the nuw KB because we be lixicdis LOL

I think ladders should be for paying individuals only. But, it could be used in marketing,
you can participate in one ladder only unless you are paying.
Get them addicted then charge... Kind of like Drugs :-)

They have introduced ladders at ItsYourTurn.com. Which again brings up a question here, when is BrainKing going to try this? Ladders are also used at Yahoo! games for its paying members. Should we have ladders here for everyone or just the paying members??

Great Idea BBW..... Maybe you can find us a site, that does the same thing with 'servers'....

(more about CafePress)

Some items you could choose from:

T-shirts, Jerseys, Hoodies
Ceramic and Stainless Steel Mugs
Posters and Framed Prints
Caps and Visors
Stickers
Bags
Baby and Kids
New seasonal items added ongoing!

And as a side note, a site I use (Nitpickers.com) has used CafePress for years. I've never used them, but I have only heard good things... other then their base price seems a little high on some items.

Actually you would not need any "up front" capitol if you use a site like CafePress

You can create a store with up to 50 products, with a logo(s) that you upload. And then you set a retail price OVER the CafePress.com base price.

It's not the best option since you would only make a few dollars off items (and CafePress makes the rest), but it does all the work for you and it would basicly run itself after awhile!

Jason: Of course. When I have money for them :-)

Great idea Jason.... MERCHANDISE!!!!!!
Tee shirts, coffee mugs etc.....

The only down fall is that it would take some 'up front' capitol. They don't make those things for free, and let you pay them later, after they are sold....Maybe we could have a tournament to raise money to pay for bumper stickers so Fencer can sell them to raise money for a new server ;)

fencer have you got plans to have some car stickers and such things ?? if you had i think there would be many of us who would like to purchase some and help spread the word about the site

<Could we have it so that when we define a tournament and set the closing date/time for signup that it's based on our own time zone -when- we set it, rather than trying to guess where to set it to make it the time we want? :>

Thats ok then, Ill be tucked up snug in my bed during the day on saturday ;o)
Good luck with what you both have to do :o)

Steve R: I must do FULL CHECK of RAM of our servers. It can be posible when boot from CDROM.
Yeah, i do it in saturay, when i wake up, have lunch a go tu hosting centrum visit our servers.

I understand :o)
I guess they will be during czech daytime?

Yes, we expect some downtimes. They should not be very long.

Oh no, I need BK to keep me awake over my night shifts Fencer LMAO
Will BK be planned to be off at any point over the weekend then?

You must wait till Monday, we plan to do quite complicated things with the database server during the weekend.

And when is the game time going to be taken off suspend?
I have games that should have timed out and the players have been online but not moved. Going by the number of moves players are making, (including most moves wednesday was 900+) I dont see why it needs suspending

Why do we need game pages to auto refresh? If you in a game, when you click or move a piece it refreshes anyway. I like the auto refresh on the main page. But would things not slow down as much if it were removed from games pages?

Whisperz, nice try but you can already go back and view the game. The pgn file just makes it a little easier.

Also, part of the skill may be to learn an opponents style, which is why I like to change up a little from time to time.

Even an invitational one would still mean we would be playing players from our own team. I am sure Fencer could add a space on the Game setup page saying, Does this game have a title ?

harley, i am talking about the matches between fellowships that we are playing.
As we can not use the tournament creation way on BK (as we would end playing people from our own fellowship) all games have to be set up seperatly(normally by all the players of one team) & then displayed on an external webpage.

Ahh I see. But if you made the tournament within the fellowship, invitational only - you could change the name there. As long as all players were in both fellowships it would work.

Monkey is on about manual tournies Harley

MadMonkey, you already can. Go back to 'start/edit tournament' and you can alter the title. So instead of it saying "MadMonkeysMadhouse chess" you could change it to "Madhouse vs Sunshine" (for example)

I knew what you meant LOL those numbers 128 remind me of my old spectrum LMAO

LOL - I didnt mean a link Steve, just a title, like when it says Normal Game at the moment, to go in place of that, just so we can find them easier. I know in the new version that the fellowship challenge matches are not ready yet and wont be for a while, so looks like we are going to be running challenges like this for a bit yet.
*Thinks Steve may need a larger webpage LOL*

128 Thats a lot of links to be done MM LOL Good suggestion though, would make it easier when someone dont pass on the numbers too ;o)

Fencer: I know you are not making any changes to the current BrainKing.
When the BK 2.0 is released i dont know if the inter-fellowship challenges we be ready to be used.
If they are not could we have somewhere on the game setup page to put in a title for a game e.g. Madhouse Vs Sunshine, rather then just have Normal game show up.
You know we are setting our own challenges at the moment to get members in the mood, and it would be so much easier to keep track of these games if we could have a title to look for amongst all our games.
The one we started last night has 128 games in LOL.

I can see where this would be good but it may reveal "secrets" of a person's success, like piece placements in screen chess and battleships in battleships, and that would be to their disadvantage in future games. Part of the skill, I think, is in the method of play which is not intended to be revealed.

Please add a feature to download .pgn for Dark Chess game after it is finished. It is very interesting to replay the game aftewards to see how the opponent played. With game in .pgn format you can do it more convinietnly, e.g. in Arena GUI.

Coffee. :)

was that pots of coffee or pot? LMAO

<I was beginning to think the 3 pots were taking their toll. ;>

I thought maybe you hadnt had your caffeine this morning ;oÞ

<WTF was that all about??? I only hit the sub button twice, and that was because the first came back 'page contains no data' ... fairly common, actually, but never before producing such unexpected results. I shall delete the extras, hopefully without deleting the board. :>

did you have a problem posting Lythande? LMAO

<Title tags on the flags, since not all of us recognize every flag in the world. :>