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pauloaguia: OK :)

Walter Montego: Disregrad that last post... I wasn't thinking clearly

pauloaguia: You'd better think about what you just said about clockwise and how it looks to each player. That's like saying we have a clock laying face up between us with you at the 6 and me at the 12 and the second hand appears to move in opposite directions! My clockwise movements will look the same no matter where the observer is placed if he's looking down upon the game. How can we be moving them in the same direction? That's not Backgammon as I know it.

Walter Montego: Actually, if the two opponents are sitting one in front of the other both will be moving their pieces in the same direction. In this case, you'll move them anti-clockwise (for instance) and it will look like your opponent is moving clockwise, though, in his/her point of view, he's moving anti-clockwise as well.

However, if the two opponents are sitting side by side, they will indeed have to move each one in opposite directions.


This said, it doesn't matter to me which way the board goes, just as long as it stays the same during the whole game

Walter Montego: That's how it worked here (one player clockwise and the other one counterclockwise). After protests and complaits of the majority of backgammon players on BK I decided to make it as it is now. From my point of view, I see no difference if the pieces move one way on another - it's just another view of the same position, nothing else.

whopper: I agree with this skepticism. When playing on a real board in person with someone one player goes clockwise and the other player goes counterclockwise. It is only with the computer do both people think they're going the same direction. Kind of like having the declaring hand in Bridge always played from the south seat in the newspaper, but that's not how it is in real games. I don't see any reason for not allowing the player pick the direction of travel for his pieces, but I also don't see why it would matter in the first place. It doesn't change the game, does it? Is there not a standardized direction of travel for the checkers? As in a book on Backgammon? Why not adopt that and have them go in that direction? Since the current way of notating the games is 1 to 24 instead by the table they're in, I would imagine that having the 6 to 1 inner table in the same place for both players would take care of it. If me, it's on the lower right and my pieces would go counterclockwise. If my opponent, it'd be on the upper left of my screen and my pieces would go clockwise toward the 19 to 24 inner table which would be on my side of the board in the lower left of the screen.

Anencephalsaid: Everybody play backgammon clockwise here in iran. I have to edit my mind when switching between OTB and net games :)

They do? How is this done? One board each, with a third person who updates your opponents board after you have made your move (and vice versa)?

Pythagoras: Well said,Its a good thing they have books and programs for playing games on game sites,Or there would be alot of lost players LOL:)

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If chickens can play tic-tac-toe and draw against humans, then i find it ridiculous if human brains complain about not being able to think things mirrored....

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And here in Greece where Backgammon is a little more inside our DNA compared to other countries we play both ways with no problems....
But clockwise or anti-clockwise? It doesn't matter. Human brain has he ability to adapt with no problems! You just have to try.....

Baked Alaskan: Everybody play backgammon clockwise here in iran. I have to edit my mind when switching between OTB and net games :)

furbster:
Currently I'm playing a "clockwise" game at another site and its driving me nuts LOL I have no option to change it tho

But I'm only there for Mancala... Will be glad when Fencer adds It here so I can quit the other site LOL
*hint*

furbster: I think that only might apply when playing on live sites and both people play /look at the same board

I've never heard of nplaying backgammon in the clockwise direction, i'd be so confused if i had to do that lol.

pauloaguia: yes i understand this but on some other game sites you have the option of which way you want to travel round the board clock wise or anticlock wise

Buz: It seems that sometime in the past changes have been made regarding that subject:
http://brainking.com/pt/News?bms=106

Eriisa: well unfortunatly i started playing gammon in the clockwise direction so was used to it till i started playing here and would love to be able to have that option for gammon games like on other sites any chance of this happening FENCER

Buz: Fraid not.

Funny thing about that. I stopped playing at GT and other sites cause I didn't like the clockwise direction! lol

mrloupcity: Lucky, Lucky you, Dad. I have no daughters to enjoy such events with. Have fun

is ther any way to show the your pieces moving clockwise instead of anticlockwise

Just thought I would tell every1

IT'S MY DAUGHTERS

WEDDING DAY


How I can stop
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mrloupcity: go to this board ;)

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=117

for this board. I know most everyone reads this board and I'm just trying to find someone that might understand or know the Polish Language. If u do could u pls PM me So I can ask aabout some words I read on a sign . Moderator pls don't get to mad at me and TYVM BK board for theto ask my
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Pythagoras: You can still leave a <pre> example in your post. No need to completely remove it :)



no <pre>
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with <pre>

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Pythagoras:

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Haha I've managed to solve the problem with one posted message only.... I'm the best!

rabbitoid: doesn't matter. 98 more messages and it'll go away.

does someone want to take up the rest? Ive got to get back to work

hexkid: doesn't matter. 99 more messages and it'll go away.

Pythagoras: The problem comes from the wide <pre> content.

I removed the center HTML-entity from my post but that doesn't solve the problem.
I wonder what is wrong.... Later i will try to remove my message to see if this corrects the problem....

OK everybody, keep your posts short, as in width wise, that way i wont have to scroll left to right

WatfordFC: I think mine is just 15", but, it is a flat screen..

ScarletRose: Yeah it is the centre text , your right too

Jason: lol ive got a 17", oh gawd that doesnt souind right does it lmao

WatfordFC: I believe you are correct there.. I would guess it is the center text tag or the size of font which has it out of whack!

WatfordFC: Its ok for me , but im on a wide screen so maybe thats why its ok for me

Radiant Aunt: Yes, i have to scroll from left to right to read the posts, i think it might have something to do with where Pythagoras was explaining about the HTML thingy and its just taken up alot of sapce in his message box, if that makes sense, i think, but not sure.

Can someone please explain to me what is going on with the page.. It looks like the info on each page i open has been moved down a wee bit.. Huh? Why?

Czuch Chuckers:

BerniceC: also you can change the amount of messages per page, drop it down to about 20 or so and there will be less to load

OK here are some HTML code that works on Brainking:

<b>BOLD</b>
<i>Italics</i>
<u>Underline</u>
<strike>Strike out</strike>

A₈₂ Makes A₈₂
20¹⁰ Makes 20¹⁰

<center> Center text</center>
[Edited to see if the center element creates the problem discussed above. That's why the text isn't at the center, because i removed the center entity.]

<li>First statement
<li>Second statement
Produces:

First statement

Second statement


<ol>
<li>First statement
<li>Second statement
<li>Third statement
Produces:

1. First statement
   
2. Second statement
   
3. Third statement
   (Not usefull since we can simply enter the numbers ourselves)
   
   
   <font size="6">Sets font size = 6</font>
   <font size="+4">Increases font size by 4</font>
   <font size="-2">Decreases font size by 2</font>
   
   
   <font color="Red">Set fond color to Red</font>
   <font color="Blue">Set fond color to Blue</font>
   <font color="#ad1af7">Set fond color to #ad12f7</font>
   After # we can set 6 hexademical digits. Each digit is 0-9 or a,b,c,d,e,f. So valid colors are for example: #f1d11a , #111af0 ,#dde229 , #111111
   
   <font color="#228b22" size="5">Set fond color to #228b22 AND set font size to 5</font>
   
   <pre>
   write text with as many spaces and with
   the format you want !!!!!!
   [Edited since pre causes some problems on the appearance of the page. So the text doesn't appear free-formatted as it should be if i actually use pre entity]
   
   <A HREF="http://www.thehungersite.com">Desided Text to appear(when clicked you would be redirected
   to thehungersite.com).</A>
   
   <A HREF="mailto: email@ofthe recipient.com">Desided Text to appear(when clicked it will open
   your default email program with the email address already entered and ready to write the email).</A>
   
   
   ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥</pre>

Czuch Chuckers: Works for me

BerniceC: Just go to the discussion board once, dont read anything, and the red numbers will be gone!

Jules: Thanks.

Reza: Look on the General Chat board, BBW did a post explaining how it can be done.

In a fellowship, I noticed that people are using bigger sizes of letters and different colours. How do we do it?

Fencer: Oh come on Fencer. Don't underestimate yourself. You can do anything. If my name is mixing things up, I'll turn it back to English for now. But remember, I'm always رضا not Reza.

I didnt take this to feature request because I didnt think it was a feature but a general request for the site.

When you havent been on in a few days and you have hundreds of RED numbers next to FB's and F/s"s it is just too much to read....can we have a drop down list of all FB's and F/s"s and click on each of them that we dont want to read and delete the whole thing...
For instance the PIT...is the same ole same ole every day withe the same ole same ole people saying the same ole same ole things HAHAHAHHA....
the Gen Chat is getting that way as well...bot of these with hundreds of messages and not one really worth reading....dont jump on me, but to read it all takes time and some of us(??) do have a life outside BK...it takes a while to load if there are hundreds of messages (when you are on dial up)...Fencer Please consider this SITE REQUEST?

pauloaguia:

Right. It's a mix of different alphabets. I am not sure if it can be fixed at all.