wetware: Hi, yes I'm !

*** Excuse me for my (bad) english language ***

I have participated in tournament Fischerandom version of ITALIAN progressive chess (not SCOTTISH) and I prefer ALWAYS variant with "Italian mate"

But this is not very important... I would like pleasure that in BK play "progressive"; for me is better "Italian"... for other player is better Scottish).

Ok for Fischerandom progressive chess versions added in BK... but ALSO "FIDE" progressive chess; for me is better "FIDE Italian"... for other player is better Fischerandom Scottish.

Ok for the opening moves from the standard starting position have been explored in great detail... but ALSO a normal "FIDE" chess are in the standard starting position have been explored in great detail and all people play !

Now I do not know that novelties are very hard to find now...
BUT I WANT PLAY "PROGRESSIVE" !

Now, sorry... BUT I do not understand this:

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(I've got one TN saved that I will not waste in any event less serious than a world championship.)
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What means ?

I think the Fischerandom versions have more original analysis because a young variants... BUT "old" variants (FIDE, Italian progressive, ecc.) can have originals analysis.

I hope of understand your nex replay.

Bye, Tamerlano

AlliumCepa: Blooming flowers.

According to this article we (Northern Hemisphere) officialy entered spring season. Happy 21 March of those of you who celebrate it.

Hint to Fencer and Tanein: our castle is still covered with snow. Can we have some blooming flowers, birds and Sun please?

AbigailII: Sorry for my rough english. I thought about only ONE move like a Rook, in order to eludate the dumb finals with Bishops on different colored square.

P-G: 1) I would not like to change the rules of chess. 2) A bishop that adds rook movements to its existing movement is called a queen. 3) As a variant, I doubt it'll see much of a fan base; there are already many chess variants.

I would just like to excite your imagination.

In Westernized chess, one thing is irritating: the finals with Bishops on different colored cases. What do you think about the possibility of Bishop to move from one cell like the Rook?

I am surprised that so far, person had the idea of joining the cannon of Chinese chess. You know, the piece that moves as the Rook but could capture only if another piece is screening to the target.

I think it would be good to add it to a game like chess Grand Chess.

What do you think?

there is a little but very promissing group of games that use cards and they are played like board games ... I cannot imaging playing bridge at turn-based site and wait 2 weeks for for my partner to respond, or even fast Gin would be unbearable when time frame for a game would be 30 days or even more than 1 day ... card games have also something more unsuitable for turn-based site ... they are by nature closed games, and players memory plays a crucial role ... so, what you remember now, in just few hours would disappear from your depository and the whole tactic would be useless ... making notes what you are to remember is just boring task and it takes the whole pleasure of playing cards away from the players ...
but card board games offer simple solution to this dilemma ... the best example of thi kind of games is poker itself played as a poker squares, and the other one being cribbage which is even better than poker and can be played on 4x4 or 5x5 grid ...
Below is a link to David Parlett's game called Get Stuck ... please look at the rules ... it's fantastic game and worthy implementation:
http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/oricards/getstuck.html
or the other game, also by David Parlett:
http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/oricards/abstrac.html

Fencer: yea... that is what I mean. One of the things that helped me with the site loading quicker was to turn off all the JavaScript items. (of course when I use the Chat, I would not mind using the JavaScript since I don't need the pages to load as quickly as I do when I want to run through a lot of games.)

coan.net: It is JavaScript, not Java. There is a big difference between them.

Fencer: Thanks for the Chat Room page. (even though I would not mind using a java version of the chat box..... just don't want to have the java version loading on every page...... since when I want to chat, I will go to the chat room page.)

I would still love to see a page dedicated to just the chat box(es).

A page that ignores the java settings for those of us who don't want chat boxes on all the other pages so it does not slow those pages down from loading (for those outside of the BK quick load zone around central Europe)

You could create a simple page, with the chat option, and all the instructions on one page.

rednaz23: That makes sense.
But it might be better to implement user rooms creating.

Is this possible to add this 4 chess variants ?

1)
Balanced Marseillais Chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/marseill.html


To reduce White's opening advantage, Robert Bruce suggested in 1963 in Nost-algia the following simple rule change: on his first turn, White only makes a single move. This rule change found wide acceptance (AISE shifted from the classical version to the balanced version in 1990), and usually is preferred above the unbalanced variant (although Fabrice Liardet still organizes Classical Marseillais tournaments in Geneva). The balanced variant has been called Balanced Marseillais Chess, but the `balanced' is increasingly being omitted.

And is this possible to add also this PROGRESSIVE chess variants ?

2)
Italian Progressive Chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/progressive.html#italian

or
Scottish Chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/progressive.html#scottish


3)
Circe Progressive Chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/difftaking.dir/circe.html


4) Progressive Take-All Chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/winning.dir/takeall.html


David B. Pritchard (chess writer) interview of year 2005:

Question:
What chess variants do you like most ?
Answer:
“Alice (especially!), Avalanche, Hostage, Marseillais, Progressive.”

Question:
What advice do you have for an avid variant player looking for opponents and competition ?

Answer:
“Join A.I.S.E. (Associazione Italiana Scacchi Eterodossi) or the B.C.V.S. (British Chess Variants Society) I am not qualified to make suggestions about meeting players on the Internet !”

Pritchard writed in your 2 books:

“Today A.I.S.E. (Associazione Italiana Scacchi Eterodossi) has done much to popularize Chess Variants by organizing two Olympiads and the same time establishing Italy as the leading Chess Variants nation“(The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, Games & Puzzles Publications, 1994);

“When there is a talk of chess variants one country predominates: Italy. It is perhaps curious that a country that has no great claims to chess mastery should be the acknowledged repositary of variant wisdom.” (Popular Chess Variants, Batsford, 2000).

And if you want know the rule of this chess variants (in italian language ) read here:

1) http://www.eteroscacco.it/articoli_es.asp?id=3

2) http://www.eteroscacco.it/articoli_es.asp?id=10

3) http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/2900/crpr.htm

4) http://www.eteroscacco.it/articoli_es.asp?id=12


Bye, Tamerlano

Fencer: Awww... See, I never would have guessed, but after you explain it to me it makes a lot of sense! Thanks!

Phil

Fencer: for instance; right between the message area and the little wrench, you could have a little checkbox, which when clicked automatically adds a "/r", so you always reply in private when that checkbox is clicked. When you want to go back to public messages, you simply unclick it! Of course, if you are having multiple conversations the old /m and name would still work.

Does that make sense?

rednaz23: It would cause a server load increase if the list of online opponents has to be calculated on every page. Unlike the list of online friends (which is more static than dynamic because you don't change your friends every day - or do you? ), online opponents list depends on your current started games list which can be, in some cases, very long and time-consuming to be parsed for each page request.

rednaz23: Regarding a chat box for each fellowship - do you mean a fellowship chat box at the fellowship page or just your fellowship room at the chat box displayed on all BrainKing pages?

rednaz23: I am not sure if I know what you mean. Where exactly would you like to click to make a private reply? What if you only click accidentally or want to copy and paste some text?

Is it a possibility down the line to make online opponents an option on the right hand column? I know there is the option on the left hand column to click to the page for it, but having the full list on the main page would be a good addition in my opinion. Down the line I am sure it could happen... ;-)

Fencer: Is there a way to make the chat box automatically respond as a reply if a box is clicked? I hope you know what I mean... I have already seen a few times where someone means to respond in private and the person forgets the /r...

Also, it would be cool if there was a chat box for each f/s... that would be very cool.

Since BK has expanded its offerings of Draughts, it would be nice if it offered Pool Checkers, too. It is a great game.

ChessVariant: I know one person that might take some issue with this....

Liquid

Rambo37: Rambo, I am the one who bugs Fencer about new games and I suspect there are many, many others who do the same ... In my opinion, we got into the situation, that in order to satisfy all our demands Fencer would have to hire 2 or 3 programmers ... he does all the job alone ... it was also some 6-8 months ago when I express my thoughts about the necessity of all these little things players ask him to do and he DOES most of them in their own time ... sometimes he is not able to follow ...
I am not in a position to talk for him to all of you ... he has to do this all by himself ... but one thing is for sure that someone, in this case him, has to do more important things than all our new versions of games ...
Thanks,
Andy.

i sent a msg to Fencer about six months ago suggesting the in the above game,you move three different tanks per move.I have written him on the same subject on two other occasions.
The reply i always get back is "Not now but i will bear it in mind for the future.
Could Fencer tell us when the "Future" is NOW
Several other players have expressed an interest in this variation.
Rambo37BB/WGF/

MadMonkey:Thanks for that!! last time I looked it said about putting in whichever folder but didn't delete.

Nirvana: There is a Delete button at bottom of NotePad, i know because i asked for it a while ago. Just tick the ones you want to delete, and hit the Button

a quicker way to delete posts from a board or in the note pad other than having to go through them all one by one please.

Thank you.

Marfitalu: how about fencer make some kind of encoding system like [add checker rules here] so instead of seeing like checkers but ... you see all the checker rules in a little box labeled checker rules.

This way all 22 languages or so can very easily refrence other game rules.

Fencer: true easiest. but refreshing only when needed will reduce likely hood of the problem and still allow current game list to show. In case you are waiting for a game to play

mctrivia: Well, I can disable automatic refresh when the chat box is enabled. That should be the easiest solution.

I have two feature requests about checkers:
1) post the rules... preferably with a short description of the main features in each one and not based solely on references like "same rules as Internacional checkers but with a larger board". With so many similar variants being able to find the basics of the rules on a first click is a must

2) make a different border color for Czech Checkers and Corner Checkers (and possibly others). I just found myself playing CornerCheckers thinking I was playing Czech Checkers...fortunately by the time I noticed it I was winning already

Ok the real time chat at the top is cool but you lose what you were typing when the page refreshes. My proposed dynamic refresh would fix this.

Feature requests (mctrivia, 2008-03-07 17:16:50)

Has anyone played Tiers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiers

joshi tm:

Mousetrap: No you are not talking Dutch unless you say something like this:

Is het mogelijk om de optie "Voeg alle teams toe" bij "Voeg team toe"?

Wanneer ik een toernooi wil maken en we moeten alle teams er een voor een inzetten voor we een nieuw toernooi definieren om de nieuwe spellen te spelen.
Of kan het bij "Definieer nieuw toernooi" bijgesloten zitten?

Heeft het zin of spreek ik Nederlands?

Is is possible to have the option of "Add All" As well as "Add a team"?
If I want to create a tournie with a new game we have to add each team one by one before we can go to "define new tournie" to play the new games.
Or maybe it could be included somewhere in "define new tournie"?
Doe this make sense or am I talking double Dutch? lmbo!

joshi tm: That is a GREAT idea, more people may play it then

Can there be a hierarchy table for jungle next to the game board?

Nothingness: Jump on over to the Frog Finder board - we have been discussing some ideas on the game. (maybe if there is a good enough idea, maybe we can get another version of the game on the site)

Nothingness: Yes, it is. I know people who like to play with a blind luck. Give them a chance.

This game im noticing more and more is determined my blind luck than skill, so to avoid this i suggest have a larger amount of frogs on the board. perhaps 20 -25 frogs! Plus this will speed up the game considerably.

If you used ajax to check if a game was updated every second and return a boolean yes no value. You could refresh the page only when the game board has changed quicker with less bandwidth used then doing the full page every 30sec. Does not work for mobile or webtv users but if you autodetect or make it an option could be a great feature. Real time game play could be possible with minimal code changes.

killerchipmunk: haha, never mind! i just found it!!!

Is there any way to search the forums to find something? Like you enter in a key word(s), and it finds forums/posts with that word(s).

ColonelCrockett: If someone creates it, why not. I don't know Facebook API and have no time to learn it.

Fencer,

is there any chance of seeing a Facebook application that can display a player's games (on turn) to him/her and a nice little banner to anyone viewing his profile?

AbigailII: Yes, that does sound quite cool, specially on a larger board with the chance of having a couple of Queens, Marshalls, Cardinals or Amazons

On an chess server I used to play, I liked to play "wild chess" (to be pedantic, "wild chess style 3", as it has several different variants, all called 'wild chess').

The rules are as follows:

1. Pawns start in their normal position (second row for white, seventh row for black).


2. A random set of 8 chess pieces is generated, subject to the constraints that the set includes exactly one king, and no pawns.


3. This set is placed randomly on the first row for white; blacks setup mirrors white (just like in regular chess).


4. There's no castling.


5. All other rules are the same as regular chess.

In this game, it might happen that you play with three queens, or four rooks.

One might even think of a 10x8 wild variant, where the set of pieces to choose from includes the Marshall and the Cardinal. (Or even the Amazon).

See also the wildchess wiki (style 3).

I would like to see Star Trek Chess on here

http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/startrek.html

not sure how you would lay out on 2d display but would be fun to play on here