I can see you MM, no problems :)
Come play !! :)

Just to add to that - i only have 5 ppl on at the moment & can't get to players on line OR Friends list - on line oppenents seems of - WEIRD ;-)

I have noticed something about this white screen (its white lolol - nooooo) it seems to happen with the more people on line.
If i only have a few friends/ppl i am playing on line i can get to my friends page, but the more ppl that come on seems to stop me getting there & also make other games very slow to access. All part of the server i guess - i am sure Fencer will tell me lol

M.M. :-)

shut it off, pull the plug for 2 minutes, then click moved, and keeping the im off does speed it up. you can clear cookies under help on your home page, then click latest news, then utilities and clear them.

Spencer: I rarely have my messenger on unless I am looking to meet up with someone and chat. But thanks for the info.

Rabbits2: Thanks for the info note on this subject. I have an old version webtv by Sony so maybe that is part of it as well. I just wondering if it was happening to PC people too. So far it looks like a webtv glitch.

Fencer I hate to be a pain but would it be at all possible to make the dice bigger and the black dots on the dice bigger if possible.

I'm on web tv too, and if you turn off the messenger everything works 100 times faster...
But I still get white screens at times, but going to the main page a few times does seem to solve this problem...

I have deleted my cookies and deleted the discarded e-mails from my e-mail storage area as well. I also find that sometimes that is not enough. If I spend long periods on the webtv it happens too.

I have a WebTV <MSNTV> system, too, and have a couple of suggestions. Power off and when you come back the white screen should be eliminated. However, it is continues, try deleting your cookies. It was happening to me this morning and after I deleted the cookies, I can more around here with a lot more speed and the white page is gone.

Wow that was quick! Thanks Fencer :)

Done.

sometimes comparison happens
to be the best illustration ... 0:)

but why not a wider range if it's
minor difficult to implement ... ~*~

I think its a great idea, the BrainKing.com board should be about this site, not how good or bad others are.....

Why not, let's try it :-)

Fencer, I was wondering whether it would be possible for you to add a broader range of discussion boards, to include perhaps some light-hearted subjects; boards where people can go to banter and chat in general, rather than specifically about the games. This would take the off-topic light-hearted bantering away from the more serious discussion boards such as your brainking.com board, and the boards relating to specific games. People would then feel more at liberty to post jokes etc and would have a place to go to post up non-topic chat stuff. This would also make it easier for people to know where to go to find that sort of chat and interaction within the site. Maybe even just one new board for "general chat"?

This is a great site - keep up the good work!

Blaze

Like to play Backhammon~Halma~Battleboats~chess~ pente~ some of games have never player,but play at IYT alot,anyone welcome TY :~)

I am convinced !

It IS a book of wonders ... :p ~*~

It is called "Vari" in my book :-) I plan to implement it. Later.

played on a round board,
has some pente-elements

maybe something not in
Fencer's 'Book of Wonders'
and, worth a look ? :D

found it in the beginning 90s
as freeware for the Amiga Computer

checked ZDnet - indeed available
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2119-9510169.html?tag=lst-0-2
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2119-8608357.html?tag=lst-0-1
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/amiga/aminet/game/board/AMancala.lha

happy St. Patrick's :) ~*~

I also have webtv and it happens to me regularly. I do notice it's usually temporary and usually happens when you click on "go to next game". So, instead of that I click on either "go to main page" or "go to game" (?) (it's the one that you use to choose which game to go to). After doing that a couple of times, it's usually ok to click on "go to next game" again.

Maybe it is because I play on a webtv (MSNTV) system there is this problem. Occassionally when I click on move and goto the next game button I get blank white screen. has anyone else whether they use webtv or a PC had this situation occur?

Nothing, really...i guess it only really could be confusing if you just kept the moves and tried to rebuild the game. You'd have to know there was no "i" column.

Yes, the "i" and the l" get confused, particularly when upper case and lower case are used. what is confusing about not having an "i"?

I noticed there is no "i" column. Is there a reasom for this? My only guess is it could get confused with "L", but at least for me, having no "i" is more confusing than having an "i" and "L". :-)

I agree with Dmitri King on the 2 game sets. I think this is one of the good aspects of iyt. Also individual games in a multi game match should count. The exception to this should only be if the games affect each other, as in a backgammon match that uses the doubling cube.

I'm sure not many players have this problem, but for me the main page loads very slow because of the number of games i am playing. Most of the time when i log on, i go through the DBs, and then click on the red link beside "Main page" to start playing, so i have no need to see my list of games.

My request: The option to have a page when you log on with the columns on the left and right (or top and bottom with row layout), and nothing in the middle. That would save a lot of loading time :-)

Thanks!

Yes, it _is_ there. I apologize for my blindness; I just missed it. Sorry!

But then the positins are pre-defined. Also, could you put more functionality in the javascript so you could view your score against each opponent or view your games by opponent?

Do you mean if I want to go look at someone elses past games? (and go through the moves they made).

I have already looked at some of the top players moves on past games for some games I'm trying to learn - so I guess that is already there (if that is what you are asking).

I haven't seen anyone ask this. Are the game moves archived so that one can replay games they've played? If not, is that a hard thing to do? (I don't want to ask for too many hard things, since Fencer probably has all he can do to keep up with the new features he's been implementing lately!)

Not yet. But Corner Chess should be very similar.

Is Fischer Random chess here? Is it like normal chess but instead each colours back row of pieces are resorted randomly and each side's setup is different. I think there are also different castling rules. I think chessbase.com have the low down.

If you're doing Go, make sure you get the only correct scoring algorithm: none at all. Just let the players mark the dead stones until they agree on the score, then simply count enclosed spaces.

IYT has an automatic algoritms to determine dead stones, and it invariably fails, which is the mean reason I let my IYT membership expire.

You are activated :-)

Fencer doesn't waste any time; he's already got Gothic Chess up and running! I'm going right over to the paid membership link and sign up!

I'm looking forward to Battleboats on this site - hopefully it will be here soon! :-)

But I was thinking of a different vatiation of Battleboats - that is it being played on a "hex" type board. So instead of boats just going up or down, you can have boats going in an additional direction also!

I just wanted to mention once more how important the 2 game sets are in tournaments. In the pente and keryp pente tournaments that I have signed up for, it looks like several of the sections may be decided solely on the basis of who got to be white in the matchup between the two best players. I hope the implementation of two game sets is a priority for pente and kerro pente (and it probably would be a good idea for all the games).

Also, I may have mentioned this before, but I would like to have the option of inviting people to a non-tournament 2-game set, where both games start at the same time, and each game counts individually as a win or a loss.

thep ente and keryo pente boards seem to be workign well, and the occasional glitch from the first few days seems to be gone. Good job.

excellent thanx! :o)
...would you concider a 'resign this point' option also?...it would speed up the really lop-sided games...again thanx!

how about a larger variets of board colors.... i see you have more sizes already in the works.... what a great site this is!

Hello again Juan,

Glad you liked the newsletters. Maybe you and I can play the first online Gothic Chess game here. Let's ask fencer about it. I will take a look at the postings under Janus chess and see what's there.

--Ed

kitti: Yes, it is random. But I will improve it ASAP.
MysticPhanton: It is already at my TODO list :-)
Ed, John: Since I've already received all gothic chess images, I will add this game within several days.

Hi Ed!

Thank you so much for allowing Gothic Chess to be available here online! I am a happy owner of a physical Gothic Chess set and was a Gothic Chess Association member for a year. Your newsletters were great! Well, I'm looking forward to Gothic Chess's online debut here and would be delighted to play you! Of course, I'm sure you'll trounce me, but I'll be able to tell my grandchildren that I played the inventor of Gothic Chess. :-)

John (a.k.a. Juan Grande)

P.S. I attempted to carry on a discussion of the relative values of the Gothic Chess pieces from your article in the July 2000 Gothic Chess Review over in the "Janus Chess" discussion board here. If you have the time or inclination, we'd love to hear your input. :-)

Hi Juan,

I am Ed Trice, inventor of Gothic Chess. We are underway to making Gothic available here online. And, Gothic Chess is PATENTED, so a license had to be issued (U.S. Patent 6,481,716) but since I am the patent holder, no problemo!

Hopefully you and I can play one day soon.

Thanks for the mention on here.

--Ed

they impliment a doubling cube in 'gammon games, I will become a brain rook!! ;o)

Fencer, are players divided to sections randomly in tournaments? In dexters 6x6 reversi tournament there is seven 1900+ rated players and 5 of us are in the same section. And in another section the highest rating is 1600ish. I'm not complaining, I just love to play lots of high rated players. But i think it would be more equal to everyone if in the future tournaments players with high rankings were divided more evenly to different sections.

what need is there for card games on a turn based games site?

Brian & Scampy: Cribbage etc... was spoke about a while ago. As you know this site is a turn based, so can u imagine how long a game would take.
i.e. Playing one card & then waiting for your apponent to play one, just one hand would take a while.
I think maybe cribbage as in once round the board with 5 cards may be better, i know Fencer is open to suggestions on it. Also he is working on single player games such as Solitare.
Any suggestions to help make easier versions would help him alot - hope this helps a bit.
M.M.

CRIBBAGE! A game that WebTV people can play? That would be wonderful! Possible?

I know Fencer is busy. However how about introducing card games such as cribbage, hearts, rummy, or even solitare.

kitti: That's great! The whole BrainKing.com is written in Java :-) Thanks.