Fencer:

On this site they explain why:

8. A man or king may not jump over the same opposing man or king more than once.

9. Captured checkers are not removed from the board until all jumps made on the move are completed, and the hand is removed from the capturing man or king.

(It is only in rare instances that rules 8 or 9 affect the play of a game. They can have the effect of reducing the number of captures possible on a move. In most of these cases a king is the capturing piece. On very rare occasions these rules, either separately or in combination, will result in a king being forced to terminate a series of jumps on a square from which it will then be captured by an opposing man or king which itself would have been captured were it not for these rules.)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Arthur_H_Olsen/intlckrs.htm

AbigailII: Yes, that's correct.

"Do you miss something on BrainKing.com and would you like to see it here? Post your request into this board!
If there is a more specific board for the request, (i.e. game rule changes etc) then it should be posted and discussed on that specific board."



Well, Fencer I still miss International Checkers Can you add that game please?

Sounds as a game with potential. Knights rule ;) For the eye, you should make single mumbers appear with an extra zero before them (like 07)

Fencer: Well, you want to do something about Ludo. How about implementing the autopass feature for Ludo first?

First round, only one game will be played. Then 64 players remain.

Fencer: Whoops, my fault. I learned tot play another game that way and my teacher called it Chinese Checkers.

Fencer: But is there a chance ( in % please) I can play International Checkers soon (say, within a ½year)?

Dear Fencer,

The Frog Legs game is pretty cool, but, I know you hate checkers, I am still in these two years missing the checkers game played most over the world. International checkers wouldn't be too difficult to implement, I think. Is there any chance I will play this game?

This game request is not only my thoughts, I know a lot of (potential) players still want this game supported by Brain King.

Also try Chinese Checkers (a 8x8 Halma type game but the pieces are in the first two rows; 16 instead of 10)

pauloaguia: How does the game work? Is it (as I see on the board) A cooperative Frog Finder?

AbigailII: But then you still have the clone players (and this time I Do not mean Cloning Backgammon)

Why only the #2 rated player should ask that (and not the top 1% +1, should be more fair, but only one challenge a time.)

I know, some top players just sit there and decline everything, except of playing against their clones, in order to keep the Top Rating.

I like very much what you suggest, though, I am just adding my thoughts.

pauloaguia:Nope. Only the Dutch can get that green with ease :)

I think I mentioned this earlier, but since Fencer has "site-improving"-moods I will ask it again.
On this page, Perseus shows for the team (average player) BKR a zero. But I think the team has already a rating: the players' average BKR on the games included, and those meaned. This way the tournament will be seeded better.

Just an idea...

If we look at a tournament with random games, we see a ugly "no rating"-phrase istead of a nice number. Also the ratings of the upcoming Team tournament is 0.

So...

How about the change that 0 or No Rating for a number that counts as the average of all the player's ratings for the game types that there are in the Random Tournament?

dicepro: I already made a proposal for a small Ludo board:

xxxooaxss
xxxohoxxs
xxxohoxxx
oooohoooo
oxxxxxxxo
ooooioooo
xxxoioxxx
txxoioxxx
ttxbooxxx

where:
x: nothing
o: empty square
h: Home black
i: Home white
s: Start Black
t: Start white
a: Arrival space Black
b: Arrival space white

This one should be quicker than normal ludo (the race length is shorther and players have just 3 men).

nabla: During Boats a doubling cube... interesting. Well, the backgammon scoring system has also a condition factor, so the BB scoring will be 1 point for each boat left times the Doubling Cube?

MadMonkey: Every puzzle boat variant :)

On this page http://brainking.nl/nl/TeamTournaments , the emoticons are not displayed. Can anyone fix that?

AbigailII: In ponds, there's no option to resign too. Sometimes when a player resigns, they just put in a bid of 0, just telling that to their friends, (that's not resigning, that's cheating!).

Still does not answer that question.

What to do with resigning players???

MadMonkey: But what happens when the ball touches a board side? Since you have to kick it away..

MadMonkey: Not each player has to score in Soccer.

MadMonkey: Monkey gets my vote, sounds cool and it is football.

Could there be an option at the tournament page:

"Show only tournaments where I signed in"?

This could be useful when players like me think they have too much games and are too lazy to find out where I am signed in.

coan.net: Firefox offers lots of free dictionaries.

Harassed: Yep, that stinks. Also the same way for TG. A timed out game causes the player removed from the tournament. And for resignations, mmm, what about... Players can't resign? (also that's a severe warning, so that should be in 72 pixel size letters described in the FAQ section)

I like Triple Gammon, a great new refreshing type of tournament. That gave me another idea for any game that uses highest points to win (like Froglet, Assimilation and Mancala, or even Anti Backgammon):

Round Robin, two standard games per player:
Instead of scoring one point, players score points equal to the outcome of te game. E.g if a Mancala game ends in 30-18, player A scores 30 points to his total and player B scores 18. BKR resolution as normal. If all games are finished, count all points scored in all matches, highest wins.

This way of playing destroys Mancala and Cheversi advantage, since every player is White AND Black against every other player, trying to score as most points as possible.

LionsLair: you get my vote :)

I would request a "Game Request" Discussion Board page. Sometimes I just read very good ideas for new BK games on other discussion board, but they get buried in there and will be forgotten.

Fencer: Please think about this sitiuation.

Well, I'm coming home after three weeks of non-BK activity, well, say, holiday. I log on, a few time outs, but I knew that; those were games with a no free days time control. But there is something else; the number of new posts in the BK main Discussion Board was over 200 and the the active duscussion three weeks ago is totally buried.

So here my question:

Have you ever thought of using a discussion board system, what almost every forum uses, with seperated subjects and so on?

Triple Gammon is fun! So how about making some expansions of this game type:

Multi-Game Triple Gammon: Players play a n-game match-> the outcome of the match is the number of points each player get. So, if in a 3 game match player A scores one gammon and player B scores 2 games, then player A gets 3 points and player B gets 2 for that game.

Team matches triple Gammon style: Or even better: Team matches Multi game triple Gammon style.

coan.net: And the other 250 listed games (for I know the list was finished for the first 85....) :):)

How about Triple Gammon style team matches?

Now the auto pass feature is working, can the feature also be implemented for ludo games?

jadarite: Well, if you want to cancel a game in the first move:
Options
-1: Become a paying member
-2: Just resign, for that won't cost any BKR.

MadMonkey: Sorry, reading is not my best ....

MadMonkey: There's another solution. Use Firefox's Back button to go back one step :)

Firefox is #1,

nabla: Darn! I´ld like to win the cheese, for I loooooooove French Cheese and Cloning Backgammon :)

Vikings: That isn't that difficult. Just the normal backgammon scoring applies now.

AbigailII: Mmmm Interesting. Same question from me for the game of Horde Chess.

Coan (BBW):

Bankroll (especially in TDP) sounds extremely exiting and I'ld like to see that one in Brain King action soon. Altough the game increases the luck factor (rolling a straight at once saves two turns) it also increases the strategy factor and the planning factor A LOT. Interesting....

MadMonkey: Perfect ideas!

AbigailII: YES!! UNO should appear! Or something like that due to copyright laws. And rating can just be so as the Ponds system now is.

ngsinan: AbigailII is right here. Bridge is a super game, but you have to take lots of notes to play, which is not good for gaming experience.

4 Player games are great to implement here at BK, Something like Ataxx 4, Halma 4, Dice Poker 4(or even more!) or Ludo 4 where board position matters only, is good to implement at a Turn Based Game Website.

Fencer: It's also useful to see when an Ice Age occurs without scrolling when you are playing about move 70.

How about an option to show only the last 10 moves played?

The top of the Tourmant pae looks like this

Tournaments(discuss)
Show tournaments created by me only
This page contains a list of all defined tournaments. You can either browse running tournaments or join a new tournament waiting for players.

How about an extra link: Show only tournaments where I'm signed up?

WellyWales: Yes, good idea.

Fencer: Are there any statistics how many users use auto pass?

Fencer: Could the auto-pass feature be turned on by default, when a user is new to Brain King?

Gordon Shumway: Well it's almost the same graphics problem as the Frog Finder game.