ok, so we have the three greek backgammon games. you said (fencer said) on the blog site that a traditional match is composed of each of the three games. i think it would be pretty easy to implement a new match type to accomplish that...

Fencer: Yes, but you cannot jump the same checker twice.

joshi tm: Er ... just to be sure - jumped pieces are removed after the move is finished, not during the jumping. Is that correct? I mean International Checkers.

Ceiter: I thought about that also. Another idea is next to total points, put the (xx) number next to the total points to show the points gained in the last move. Of course putting it in the game notation would help when going back multiply turns to review a game, but most of the time it is nice to see what was actually taken.

I have a small request for Knight Fight: to show the values of the previous moves instead of just the locations. So in the game notation on the right, instead of saying "j4", it would say something like "j4 (76)". Or in the case of doubles it would say something like "j4/d7 (55/88)".

The way it is, I find myself going back to previous moves a lot to see exactly what just happened. It's a little disorienting, especially when you're playing many Knight Fight games at once!

Just adding information about the last move would be good, too, if you don't want to change the notation of the whole game.

How about a 3rd party user interface like facebook has so 3rd party apps can be designed more closely with the sight. Would be nice if people could sign up for my autoplayer just by pressing 1 button on your site then disable it also from a button on your site.

joshi tm: I think I know what you mean.

"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?

Snoopy: This is just a temporary solution. Text links will be replaced by images with numbers.

Snoopy: I second that... maybe using a color for the text background, to make sure the foreground contrasts with the background.

Also, is there any chance the "pairs" of the squares we can move to be highlighted as well? It makes it hard to try and find a number between almost 100 others when they're spread out randomly... I remember someone suggesting it using javascript when you over each of the possibilities... butI think it would be fine if the possible pairs were just statically highlighted using plain old HTML... at least they'd be easier to find.

Fencer: "idiots are too ingenious" :-D

Czuch: It would be impossible to make the whole site idiot proof. Idiots are too ingenious.

It would be great if fencer could make this whole site 'idiot proof', but since that is not likely to ever happen, then taking a little more time to pay attention to what we are doing is the next best advice

What is the next feature request?

"The color coded games get me confused, I never remember which ones are what, can you please Fencer make it so when I make a silly move I am asked if i am sure I am playing the game i think I am playing?"

mctrivia: It's done. Thank you, Fencer for your quick reaction!

There is a Rule in my country: all pieces from the first roll must be placed, not moved. It prevents starting player from moving too much ahead and endanger opponent's starting field.

I mean: when the game starts, we have all our pieces "piled up" and then we must "land" all of it into game board according to rolls we get. So you have 2 steps:

1. placing pieces,
2. moving pieces.

While you have that "pile", you can chose to "place" (enter) a piece OR move already placed one. The Rule I was talking says that if one player's first roll is a double, they must place all pieces and move none of them until the next roll.

Here is an example: My first roll is 6-6 and I play 24-18(2) 18-12(2). I.e. place 2 pieces, then move it. This way, I have direct hit upon your field and it is very likely to block your men in the very beginning of the game. This would happen if the Rule is not in power.

What you think guys, should we adopt this rule here on BK as well?

PS. Some part of the above text was Copy&Pasted from one of my games, with a permission from my opponent.

coan.net: I agree. Games with similar boards but very different rules like antichess and chess should have different colours or something to distinguish. Well that is a bad example because antichess does have a nice red boarder to let you know it is different.

coan.net: You are right, we don't need so many colors. I update my request: only for those game types that would be easily mistaken.

Carl: There is nothing written on the left side of my board. I can see what game is displayed only on my browser's title, but "Backgammon" and "Plakato" are spelled very similar in Bulgarian and can be misread.

AlliumCepa: Have you tried looking to the left of the board? It say's what the game is there!

Can we have a colored frame around game board for the new gammon variants? It would be easier to distinguish it. I mean something similar to Anti/Cloning etc.

In fact, can we have different color for all gammon types?   <-- Edit

LionsLair: Once they accept one game from you, then you are already playing against them and they will not see your other invitations!

LionsLair: Yes.

Fencer: will this prevent someone from accepting more than one game?

LionsLair: Have you tried to uncheck "Include players who are already playing *game type* with me" option while creating public invitations?

I would like to see a feature that would limit the # of games that an opponent can accept when you have games in the waiting... I would like to get games from many players when posting games in waiting area(mainly to learn different stategies) but it seems like every time I post games( lets say 9 plakato games) it seems like one user always accepts 6-7 of them and it really irritates me... I think 2-3 is sufficient.
I would really like to see something added that I can block folks from accepting too many of my waiting games! does anyone else?

coan.net: Maybe another set of Japanese pieces would be an idea, with both pictures on them

ColonelCrockett: I do agree, just thought it would be a nice feature and save time for us learners

coan.net: well 2 clicks is beter then the way i went but still have you have 10 teams you want to leave just clicking 10 check boxes then submiting it all at once would be nicer.

mctrivia: Clicking on the team that you are on listed in your profile takes you right to that team in that fellowship (allowing a quick click of "leave") (so once you are looking at your team list in your profile, a total of 2 clicks from leaving the team)

On the fellowships tab under My Profile it lists all the felowships and teams you are on. Would be nice if there was checkboxs to remove yourself from this page instead of having to remember which you are in. go to the felowship page. find team on list. look who is on that team then select leave. for each team you want to leave. Leaving a fellowship not as big a pain but might as well add the feature while at it.

MadMonkey: I don't get to play as many games of Shogi (japanese chess) as I'd like here but let me see if I understand the problem. You're not Japanese. You'd like to play with the traditional kanji pieces but you are stuck playing with the international pieces unless you want to lose alot of games while learning. I had this same problem ... and I didn't need a brainking feature to solve it. At first I simply changed my settings here at brainking to reflect the kanji but after losing a few games from moves that could've been avoided had I used the international symbols I went back to the drawing board. There is a great program out there called "Shogivar". If you can find it and download it (free) you'll be on your way. it uses only the traditional pieces and its playing strength is average. You can play game after game against it until you've learned the kanji pieces. That's what I did and it didn't require any hover=power feature here on brainking to complete.

Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu

MadMonkey: I don't play the game, but as an idea - can you find any game pieces/images that include both the traditional image with the "move tip" both on the same piece?

I say this since I think it would be easier for Fencer to add another set of game pieces to choose from.

When you have time Fencer , could you add a Setting in the Japanese Chess settings please.

Like many here i have learnt the rules and enjoy it, but at present i can only use the International pieces (ones that show move directions).

I would like to learn the proper pieces (with the characters on top). So i was thinking maybe a Javascript Setting so if you hover over a piece on the board, the corresponding one shows.

This would save having to keep changing settings and make it easier to learn the proper pieces

Fencer: I would love to see Plakato brought here.

I have also listed 3 other gammon ideas on the Backgammon Discussion Board: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=26

Double & Triple Choice Backgammon

Dark Backgammon

New Russian Backgammon

I would love to see anyone head over to that board to give their opinions on those game ideas.

MadMonkey: Nice variation.

I love Lines of Action & Scrambled Eggs

How about a small modification to Scrambled Eggs, to get Parachute . (Could think of a better name lol)

Only half the pieces are on the board to start with (normally left & right sides). Each player starts with six of his opponent's stones in reserve.

The first six moves consist of making a regular move and placing one of the opponent's stones, anywhere on the board.

After this, game continues as normal

Fencer: Yeah, but you'd need to work on the backgammon graphics anyway, to be able to distinguish between "race" and "normal" stones on the bar. (The latter are required to be played before you can move any non-barred stones, the former don't. "Race" checkers appear in Crowded Backgammon, Backgammon Race, and Cloning Backgammon). ;-)

Fencer: awesome Thanks
any chance on another pond feature? I know several that would like to be able to sign up for ponds by checking which ones they want to join (from the main page)and doing it with one mouse click instead of having to sign up for each one individually and end up having to see 3 pages per pond.(main,pond,signup, back to main)
signing up for 10 ponds means seeing at least 30 pages ---just something to think about while making the site more user friendly!.

-may want to get rid of "another test pond" while you are at it... it will never start

Fencer: Does it mean that we will have this game here? It's my favorite Backgammon variant. Very skilful

furbster: This page says that Plakato and Tapa are just the same.

What are the rules of plakato? anything like Tapa? love that varient!

Fencer:

LionsLair: It is done.

Fencer: Cool feature thanks!

Fencer: if to many combinations you could make the pieces on the fly or just make the pieces with clear background and use css to overlap with the board.

Fencer: No it's not just about one white and one black on the same position.It can happen that there is one white and lots of blacks(or vice versa) at the same place.I don't know anything about programming but i guessed it would'nt be as simple as creating just another version of backgammon.It is still my dream to see the game here,and i'm sure it could bring a lot of Greeks to the site as it seems to be there national game! Thanks for your consideration.

Carl: Plakoto requires to create new graphics because we never used combinations of white and black pieces at the same position.
Or is it only about "one white and one black"?

Love the new "hide games where it's my opponents turn" feature.Would now be a good time to request the backgammon variant Plakoto?

excellent! now if it worked the same way for the 31 ponds I am waiting on that would be awesome!

Fencer: How about hide most of the ponds (show only five ponds) like with games

redfrog: Check it.