WhiteTower: You can't call it Yahtzee because that is a registered trademark . . . but you can call it yacht, etc.

nobleheart: Actually... why has NO other site implemented Yahtzee yet??? Come on, Fencer, it's your chance to pioneer once again :)

have you ever seen these games?:
mille bourne
painted yatzee
capture the flag

mctrivia: PGN is human-readable, so one way to use it is simply to open the file in any text editor: you'll find some information identifying the game and a list of the moves in Standard Algebraic Notation. Also, most chess programs (e.g. XBoard/WinBoard) will let you view and save games as PGN.

I'm also in favor of Matarilevich's suggestion, especially since the PGN format allows one to store many games in a single file. Perhaps it would also be nice to be able to download all the games from a particular tournament at once.

While we're on the topic of PGN, I'd like to repeat my request that the PGN files for chess variants identify the variant being played by using the "Variant" tag (and in the case of games with different starting positions, the "SetUp" and "FEN" tags).

Matarilevich: I secound that. Now if only I knew how to use PGN format.

It would be nice to have an option by which you can download all your chess games (present and past) in PGN format instead of one by one, as it works now.

Daniel Snyder:
Great !
I will wait for you,,,,

When I get back I will send a e-mail to where we can go and play... I will teach you... OK...

Daniel Snyder:
I have just read the rules and I don`t get it!
But what the h---,I will try to do my best.
It took me quite a while to learn Backgammon,,,,
and some people say that I still don`t got it right,,,

Good Luck... It is hard but a fun game to have fun with... Just like chinese chess... I stink but learning

Daniel Snyder:
Thank`s !
I will do my very best to understand this game,,,,,

Blackadder Mr K: Good Luck

ScarletRose:
Thank`s ! I try that one!

www.usgo.org is a very good site to help learn and find places to play... also www.yutopian.com/go is a excellent place to go for go boards software and others ...
Both Highly recommended...

Blackadder Mr K: IYT offers GO...

www.itsyourturn.com

Blackadder Mr K: I am working to find the site for you... Gimes some time...

Daniel Snyder:
Can you name one good one ?

Blackadder Mr K: I would start by beating your head against a wall. I've read several "rules" and am none the wiser. I second the question: Where can you get understandable rules on how to score?

Blackadder Mr K: Go is not on this site... right now... There are other sites devoted to Go...

Hi !
I would like to learn the game GO.
Can anyone help me wherw to start ?

MidnightMcMedic: Notpermanent... Just an option...

No No No please dont change the colors. I'm scared of numbers!

In froglet can we use numbers in stead of colers.. Green -1 Yellow -2 Red 3 Blue 4?

playBunny: thanks, I found the Nirvana tournaments and confirmed. ;)

ColonelCrockett: Having just gone through the motions, yes, you can do N-wins matches and N-points matches for the single-elimination tourneys.

furbster: I'll check further and see if I can tell, thanks.

Not sure if this is the same, but nirvana's tournements of the random kind are 3 wins matches, so i geuss it is possible to do 3 game matches

Is it possible to create a tournament that is single elimination but has three game matches? (example: I enter an elimination tournament of dark battleboats, I am given one opponent like normal but I have to play a three game match to decide the winner and the winner of the match goes to the next elimination round). I could see the benefit for both battleboats as well as gammon and most of the variants of both.

BIG BAD WOLF: I second that one

Shouldn't Extinction Chess have a different color boarder like some of the other variants which look similar to regular chess, but play much differently?

I just noticed the little dot next to the names of tournaments in which I'm already signed up -- bravo!

alanback: Aye, I'm all in favour of systems remembering and making use of the context.

playBunny: True, but I think it would be an improvement to the normal functioning of the site to go "back" to the actual page one arrived from, rather than to a different page. If I wanted to go back to a generic "Tournaments" page, I could do so in one click off the left hand menu.

alanback: There are two options for having that now. One is to use the browser's Browse Back which will return you to the search results. The other is to go forward using Open In New Window (or Tab if using something like FireFox). Just close it when you're done and the tourneys' page will be waiting for you.

When I search for tournaments in a particular game, such as backgammon, I click through the tournament screen and the game screen in order to join. Then I click "back to the list of game types" and "back to the list of tournaments." It would be nice, when I have previously searched for tournaments of a particular type, if the system would remember those settings and take me back to the search page showing only the type of tournaments I searched for. In that way I would not have to perform the search repeatedly to join several tournaments of the same type.

playBunny: I should have said a topic of some delicacy!

alanback:

I hope we're not talking about a delicacy to be served at the table!

Walter Montego: I'm not a Pawn, but I consider my daily movements a matter of some delicacy ;-)

playBunny: Just a couple weeks ago, eh?

I like your idea. A comprise of sorts. Let the paying members see the information and the free members not see it. Sounds good to me. Fencer says there's no problem with his computer being overworked either.

Walter: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=3&bscx=474871 :=D

I would like to be able to view a Pawn member's daily move activity. Perhaps you don't want the Pawn members being able to view this information, but I find it sometimes helpful in deciding to accept an invitation or to send one myself. I thought there was a time in the not so distant past that paying members could see this on a Pawn member's profile page. Or am I remembering it wrong? In any case I think it's be nice to have the information available.

alanback: That is an interesting idea - a way to collect names & send a message to a certain group of people.

At the same time, i would also suggest a way to "opt-out" of all mailing list messages. I have left fellowships where the BIG BOSS sends out too many "group messages" where you read the same information on the fellowship discussion board, and I'm sure there would be a few that would also send out a lot of these also if allowed - so would be nice to block all..... if that feature request is done of course.

Fencer: What about allowing tournament creators (or anyone) to make "mailing lists" for private messages?

whatdidyousay: It's not necessary because when the tournament is finished, all participants are sent a message annoucing the winner and their final position automatically.

Would it be possible to put a link at the bottom of private tournament pages (at least for the creator) to send a pm to everyone in the tournament? Sort of like the link that f/s Big Bosses use to send to everyone in their f/s. It would just be handy to announce the winner of the tournament and thank everybody for particpating.

I know we can create tournaments that are random, but can we add "random" to multi-game tournaments we create? (In other words, I create a tournament which includes the games Backgammon, Hyperbackgammon, and Random game, then either allowing the creator to define what games would be included in the random pool, or having random be made up of the other games already included in the tournament.) If not, I think that would be a good thing to add...

I think a set of Stairs that generates random games would be fun! (Or at least the ability to add "Random" to our stairs in fellowships)

emmett: Players from your list of Blocked Users cannot see or accept your public invitations.

tonyh: It's not worth changing the formula.

Fencer: how much difference does that make in actual rating points? In other words, does it really matter?