Tutagil: For all it takes you have my support. The bug in the rules has been here for years, and for years Fencer has promised it would be corrected.
It is a weird thing, since the Turkish community is such a strong one on this site, that Fencer keeps making such promises and doesn't actually do anything.
I still remember when there were similar bugs on the Check Checkers implementation and the Czech community kept complaining about it. It was a community much stronger then than it is now (proportionally to the others) and it still took him a while to fix it. Sadly he missed the opportunity to fix it for other checkers games, even though it was already know and had been pointed out at the time.

I have decided to post my comment here and not at the Turkish forum as suggested for two reasons:
1) I don't know how to speak or write Turk. So it doesn't seem right for me to post in that board.
2) This is a "Board for everybody who is interested in BrainKing itself... and future" (like all the Brainking.xx boards), and I feel I must voice my reason on this, since the way Fencer sometimes prioritizes development affects all of us as players. "This is a game site, first of all", so we're told often, so I'd like to see game related bugs have a higher priority sometimes than messages or discussion boards related issues, for instance.

Fencer (and mods): Don't take me wrong, I'm not trying to start a flame war against you, but I'm on the side of the Turkish community in that this bug in the rules has been around for far too long... especially since the game is called Turkish Checkers (which is a name associated with a very well defined set of rules) and should therefore follow its rules more accurately - and the capturing rules are an important set of the gam rules in all checkers variants.

Stand after Five in Line:

Medal table:

1. - 3. Dominika, Southern Korea and Russia 1 - 0 - 0
4. - 6. Germany, Uganda and Poland 0 - 1 - 0
7. Slovakia 0 - 0 - 3

coan.net: Good idea, I like Star Wars.

TexasToest: what kind of membership levels are you trying to set - certain privleges? abilities - what did you dream - and we will tell you how to make them come true....

coan.net: I agree! The last batch KILLED me... I had more games than I could handle! A monthly or quarterly revolving list would be great.. split them up so there's an equal amount that would start each time..

TexasToest: I would love to see more team tournaments - BUT I would REALLY like them to be spread out more - maybe 5-6 to start at a time (and not 15-20+ starting all of a sudden)

My suggestions - since Fencer used a "Bond" theme last time, how about a Star Wars theme this time

Backgammon - team size 8 - The Phantom Menace
Ludo - team size 7 - Attack of the Clones
Triple Dice Poker - team size 7 - Revenge of the Sith
Frog Finder - team size 6 - A New Hope
Dice Chess - team size 6 - The Empire Strikes Back
Logic - team size 6 - Return of the Jedi

Then after a month or so, start 6 more - like:
1. Dice Poker
2. Mancala
3. Battleboats Plus
4. Hyper Backgammon
5. ??
6. ??

... split them up over time - mix them up with different types of games, etc...

emmett, MadMonkey and Tigger:  I could go for some team tournaments too.  How 'bout it, Mr. Fencer sir?

Hrqls and redfrog:  No, I'm talking about if you start a new fellowship.  I thought when setting up a new fellowship you could set the membership level of members of the fellowship.  I guess I dreamed it.

me 2 :) i read the last book in 2 days lol

furbster: Oh yes, doubt i will be on much next weekend, i will be in the queue at midnight to get my copy

ooh good idea i can't wait til the book comes out adn i'm seeing the film this week woohoo lol

Tigger & emmett: And as a theme, how about Harry Potter as the last book is released next Saturday, and the 5th film is now out ( <---Quidditch lol)

emmett:  me too  :)

MadMonkey: I would love to see a new round of team tournaments.

Any sign of any new Team Tournaments yet Fencer ?

All those new games we have not had Tournaments for yet well, apart from Hawaiian Checkers & Cheversi, but we could have the again as they were new at the time and no one knew what to do lol

OK.  To speed things up, while Emma is answering her questions, I'm taking interview requests.  I've got 3 so far.  Send me a message.  Don't ask for people to be interviewed on here so that it'll be  asurprise for them to see they've been chosen.  Thanks.

pauloaguia: True, have an option to have new games added or not

Thats would be good, solve the problem both ways then

MadMonkey: I didn't have all chess variants active in my filter, not sure if it has anything to do with it.
Better yet would be an option to automatically add (or not) new games from the filter as they are created on the site... because some people may argue that they don't want to have to reset the filter every time a new game shows up...

Fencer, could you set new games to selected in our settings please as default.
As you know Behemoth Chess is rather quick , trying to get rematches set up is a nightmare till people change there filters.
Selected by default i think would be better

aaru: you have to send the King a message nominating him

"Snoopy": My proposal is tenuki (No 1 in 16 games!).



____
aaru

King Reza: and the next to be interviewed is?

I sent the questions to Emma.  No more questions please. 

Bwild: One of them.

Fencer: "Your timeouts are not our fault." typical management response!! lol

Proud2bAmerican: The downtime was shorter than 60 minutes, that's why the time is not stopped. Your timeouts are not our fault.

OK.  Thanks for all the questions you've sent me.  I'll send Emma the questions tomorrow morning, which is in about 15-18 hours from now.  So if you have something on your mind that you feel like asking, just send it to me quickly. 

TexasToest: you might be wondering about making them captains or not - they have to be made managers before they can be made a captain.

TexasToest: they can only set the level for inside the fellowship, making them a manager or not

I thought the big boss of a fellowship could set the level of membership for members.  Untrue?

Looks like we need an additional smiley :-)

baddessi:

redfrog: Welcome...very nice to see you up there

Oceans Apart:

redfrog:

Hrqls: thanks for the welcome as co-mod- i hope to be of use....

Dominika:

Medal table Brainking World Championship after logic

1. - 2. Dominika 1 - 0 - 0
1. - 2. Southern Korea 1 - 0 - 0
3. - 4. Germany 0 - 1 - 0
3. - 4. Uganda 0 - 1 - 0
5. Slovakia 0 - 0 - 2

redfrog has just been added as a co-mod for this board, please be nice to him .. and remember his skin isnt just thick .. but might also be poisonous :)

(i am still thinking of adding 1 more co-mod, but will give it 2 more weeks before i decide about that)

tippyc: in that i cant seem to find an edit post button, ill add this here: i would like to clarify that i like playing short games (such as dice poker) with a .1/0/.1 clock

i wish there was a way to hide an invitation.

i like to play short .1/0/.1 games, but i dont want any invitations that i send to remain open when im not online to play them. the only way to do that (and i might be missing something) is to delete them. however, creating new invitations when i log on again is tedious and feels like a waste of time, especially if my invitation is not accepted.

is there a way to do this?
if not, has anyone else ever had this thought?

(maybe this could be considered for a future update...)

rod03801:

Mmmm... true...

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the bad guesses stay highlighted on the board, in some way.

rod03801: I use the notepad for my guesses.

rod03801: Easy fix... write your guesses down in a note. ;-)

coan.net: I like being able to choose how many lines of game notation are shown, too. However, I wish there was a way in that area to choose to show the entire game notation.

I always have the game notation hidden. However, there are some games where I find it necessary, and I turn it on to see, then Hide it again. The problem is, there are also games where if I'm going to look at the game notation, I need to see the whole thing. (Frog Finder comes to mind, since there is no other way to remember what squares you have "guessed" and been wrong. MOST games however, when I check the game notation, I am only interested in the last one or two entries. SO, when I come to Frog Finder, I have to go to Settings and change it to show the entire game notation, then go back to the game. THEN go back to settings and change it back to showing 2 lines.) SO, I would like to have a way right in the game notation area, to switch back and forth between ALL entries and 2 entries.

Cool - I just noticed the setting of "Number of game notation lines to show: "

This is cool - it's always been a pain since I hate to have the game notation there at all, but there are a few games where you need to either see the last move or know what move number you are on (like ice age chess) - so unless those facts are moved to the game board, having the number of game notations lines at 2 or 3 is pretty nice.

... still would rather not have it show at all - but I like it a lot better then loading 50+ lines of game notations.

Bwild: Very funny.