Carl: If you use firefox hexkids greasemonkey skript can remove the flags and even the side bar but it makes no difference in the speed the page loads at. Internet Explorer I find loads the page a lot quicker then IE when not using extremely slow wi-fi signals. It would be nice if there was something like a text only version were the board shows up as letters and nothing extra comes up. As a start it could be pretty easy to implement if the person wants text only print out the board using the same table but replace the images with say X and O for ludo or for chess P,R,N,K,B,Q. Also allowing the move history and side bars options that can be removed.