Chessmaster1000: Five minutes before you submitted your post.

Not the time at was writing it.......

Chessmaster1000: Why? It's already back.

Fencer: weehee! i got my fellowship board in my favourites boards again :)

Damn now in the favourite boards we can't have the fellowship boards........
Not even the wolf-trick works:

http://brainking.com/game/DoSettings?bsub=1&bc=XXX&ps=$Board&pp=bc$XXX
where XXX is the number of the board.........
Naughty Fencer....! You should bring back this feature.......

Better?

Fencer: ok .. we will be patient(s) ;)

Easy. I didn't say this is the final version. But with the complexity of the site, it's not possible [and safe] to implement everything at once.

Nirvana: *nod* i would love it back as well .. i had the ones where i am a mod or big boss as my favourites so i would read them first (when i had little time) .. i am missing that feature now

A useful feature which for some reason no longer seems to work. Those fellowships in favourites lists are now mixed in with all the others belonged to.
Maybe it could be brought back?

Jules: aarrrggghhhhh! lol

I don't think so. It's either have them in all languages, or just one language I think.

Jules: actually the second language board, i have one that has czech as the first language. can we selectively delete or hide the ones we don't use? i have some that use the czech side as a second english board!

tazman7474: Yep, they are.

it looks like the duplicate listings are for the czech boards

I try to look at the Purple World DB and it takes me to the generic "news" DB which is months old and almost never read let alone used. It's hard enough getting people to be interactive and post on the DB and now they can't even find it! Boooo. LOL.

ClayNashvilleTn: I've cleaned mine up by only having the boards displayed that are supposed to be English, but that means I lose one board that I need to see until the Big boss can get around to editing that boards language!!

This how mine now looks. SHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSK

HOME (1)
HOME
Goodfoods' Kitchen
! ! ♥PepperMintPatty's Challengers♥ ! !
! ! ♥PepperMintPatty's Challengers♥ ! !
The Power House Camaraderie (1)
FoxyLadysCoffeeHouse
** BADINAGE ** (23)
** BADINAGE ** (1)
QuizMasters Asylum (101)
QuizMasters Asylum
◙ The Gammon Cube ◙ (6)
◙ The Gammon Cube ◙ (29)
(SCRL)
Debate Club
Debate Club
Flame Pit
! The Zoo ! (602)
! The Zoo ! (12)
True to Yourself in HIS Spirit
True to Yourself in HIS Spirit
MASTERMIND
MASTERMIND
Purple World (4)
Purple World
ŊøøҜs έ Craηηίεs (52)
ŊøøҜs έ Craηηίεs (8)
☆☆☆ Team USA ☆☆☆
GOD'S PLACE (19)
GOD'S PLACE (1)
The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad
☼ ¥εstεrday's Wørld ☼ (79)
☼ ¥εstεrday's Wørld ☼ (8)
Knights Of The Round Table (1)
Flirt'n'Flatter (TrueBelle's Parlor)
Flirt'n'Flatter (TrueBelle's Parlor)
IT IS A NEW DAY
Thelma and Louise's Bar and be Grilled
Thelma and Louise's Bar and be Grilled
Laugh it up, M8 (Vtipy od 18ti) (2)
Laugh it up, M8 (Vtipy od 18ti) (49)
THE WELCOME MAT (1)
THE WELCOME MAT (10)
**~FACT or FICTION~**
**~FACT or FICTION~** (1)
The Mods Retreat
hyper kingdom
We are one
We are one
Casablanca
Moderator Complaints
Ask Dr. Purple
~ The Campfire ~
~ The Campfire ~
BIG BOSS f/s
BIG BOSS f/s

ClayNashvilleTn: So do I.

Jules:I agree totally. I would have preferred it stayed like it was.

It is obvious that it will cause a headache hunting through all the F/S trying to find the ones that are favorites. Maybe it is just an oversight and will be corrected. I sure hope so.

Also I thought Pro backgammon was the next thing on the list of features to be completed. So why are these new features being implemented first if Pro backgammon is top of the list?

ClayNashvilleTn: I had a few F/s boards as part of my favourites. Now they have dissapeared of the fav boards list. This is not right!

Jules:One would think in lieu of this change then a feature for "favorite fellowships" would be in keeping with the format.

A list of all the Boards
A Favorite Boards

A list of all the fellowships
A list of "Favorite Fellowships" would be good.

There are so many F/S and it is messy trying to find ones favorites

This new way of showing the fellowship boards is messy. Any chance of changing it back?

cool ;) ty

Jason: 5 boards (including the main one) is the limit. At the moment :-)
Other changes are related to languages. Mostly.

being able to add a new board ;) is there a limit to how many boards you can create ?.
what other changes are they ?

Shreela: i used to have the same problem when playing games games would keep popping in the way of older games that i hadnt moved , here what i did and it worked for me .in the settings page do this and it should work
Sort next games by, last move time in the drop down box , and the the ascending box

BIG BAD WOLF: I'm still using the "time left" (ascending) setting, and I started through my game list. I played about 8 games through when a game that I'd already made a move in popped back up into my list (I had the games list page open in another tab to check).

So, I clicked the Play Later button to get back to the order I hoped to play through. After completing my move in the next game, the same game that I just skipped came back up.

So my new configuration is not doing what I hoped it would: To play through my game list, one turn apiece. GT is setup so that if someone is currently online that their game pops back up into the active gamelist also, but when we click on the Play Later (or Skip) button, it allows us to get through the entire game list before games I've already made one move in come back up for play.

That's what I was hoping for here, without having to manually setup each game through the dropdown, or constantly load a game just to be able to click it. If I wanted to play live, I'd play through a game server with a client or at a java site

malynemo: You'll have to use English for me to read that. Maybe you'll want to check out the Czech board if that's what language you're typing in.

tak odpovězte. jak se máte?

čauky lidi jak se máte?

i just want to say that brainking is one of the best websites that ive ever been on! thanks fencer and thanks everyone else! (even if you r just sat there!!)

Thanks pauloaguia, and BIG BAD WOLF I changed it to last move time, ascending.

Shreela: Like pauloaguia said, the option in "Settings will give you a few options:

That is why you click "Next" on a game, what game it will take you to:

"The same column as on Main Page" - Does what it says, in the same order as on main page

"time left" - (Ascending) will play the game with the least amount of time left first.

"last move time" - This will play the game by how long it's been sitting on your move. This (in my opinion) is the best way to go through ALL the games that you have a turn for - giving all games at least 1 turn before going back and giving a game a second turn.

pauloaguia: hmmm... but that isn't necessarily the order they're on your homepage though (just noticed this part from your post)

Shreela: Goto Settings -> and then on the option "Sort next game by " choose "time of last move" ascending
(sorry if the labels aren't accurate... I'm translating as I write it)

Hi, how do I set up my NEXT options so that I play the games in the same order they're on in my gamelist, and play each game only once even if an opponent is online.

The way it is now, I can't get through my list if someone is online because if they play then their game comes back into my playlist.

I know I can manually choose my next opponent from the other dropdown, but having to do that each time can be a pain.

Or I can click on the Play Later button, but that requires the page to load to click, I would like to play through the list, one play per game, but haven't found out how to configure this. Thanks

(changed having to haven't)

Cranky Franky: I just wanted to clarify that in 1968 I think, the World Backgammon Champion, Luigi somebody, did lose to one of Dr. Hans Berliner's Backgammon programs.

I am fuzzy on the details but not the result.

EdTrice: At the Quantum level everything does happen,

...it happens often enough to produce the same stable patterns and a stable universe. The bell jar pattern happens randomly, but it's always a bell jar shape. I know this isn't a physics or science board but..why isn't there one of those here?

Just a thought.

Hrqls: In backgammon it shouldn't matter because the "randomness" is the same for both players, but it can mess someone up who is used to a more random kind of randomness.. lol.. it doesn't take much to mess me up.

You can predict with more than random accuracy what might happen in a game of backgammon. If bumping a piece back exposes the attacking piece, then odds are good for getting a number that can bump that piece back. That's normal, but I've seen more doubles and big numbers nearer the end of games than at the beginning. There should be no discernible pattern after several games. 10 doubles in a roll I can believe but not a pattern showing up in 10 successive games. Again, I'm not complaining and the fact is this could just be my imagination talking.

An artificial intelligence can't play well against a moderately experienced player. Thinking in backgammon is much more intuitive than chess. There isn't a program that can beat the best backgammon players in the world, not even close.

Cranky Franky: lol ... completely digital of course :)

when a computer 'calculates' a random number it looks up a value in a very fluctuating function

when you dont seed the random call it will take the first value from that function .. and the second value on its second call .. that why unseeded calls always produce the same series

most language allow you to perform a seed with the clock of the processor which will then place you into an area of the function where you havent been before and there a new series will be produced .. but still its a series with some periodic repitition

Hrqls: Build computers with mechanical arms that can shake and roll the dice. A scanner can read and enter perfectly random numbers into the game.

How much is the prize?

EdTrice: i believe there is some high prize offered for anyone finding a way to create better random numbers on a computer .. random number generators are very important in many fields of applied computer science

(i dont know if the same prize is offered as which is offered for a new record high prime number though :))

Just as a side note to all, there is a great deal of published papers on randomness in the artificial intelligence community. Believe it or not, if a chess program is capable of generating "better randomness", they get better use out of their hash tables, which helps to reduce the size of the game tree searched, which can help it get to a deeper search depth in the same amount of time!

I experiemented with different random number generation routines, and, sure enough, in the grand scheme of things, some code produces "better randomness" than others.

But please take a look at the huge number of active gammon games shown on the statistics page. With so many games in play, the odds are, evenly unlikely rolls are going to happen.

As one Quantum Physicist said: "If you wait long enough, everything will happen."

Fencer: I am not trying to pick a fight here I just wanted to know how the dice worked on here because it is not mentioned in the FAQ section. I didn't know this subject had been brought up before and you had already been over it. Also wanted to let you know what was said. I see NOW they were just joking around by the post from them below. I hope there are no hard feelings. You got a very good site here. Keep up the good work.

Backgammonfan28: Gee, have you ever heard of sarcasm? lol

LOL! Can anyone give me a hand with Farsi?

Marfitalu: French is almost done. But thanks anyway :-)

Bry: Try Georgian instead. That's what I really want here.