yeah great work Brennan!
the draw feature works perfectly so far, and does not appear to have affected any other of wifight's functions.
...and checkers needs this even more badly than chess, because draws are much more common.
One of the reasons I was looking forward to this is that it may help me to clear away some of my long list of games that arent going anywhere either because they are real draws or because my opponents just seem to to have lost interest.
In that regard, your to-do list might be lengthened even more with some mechanisms to discourage and deal with exceedingly long delays between moves, e.g
* basic: players lose a game (or it is at least aborted) if they have not made a move in, say, a month.
* advanced: some system of pre-agreed options as to the speed of the game (specified in the initial game challenge) eg a player must reply to their opponent's move within 12 or 24 (or 48 or 72, etc) hours.
In the latter case, maybe a timestamp for one's last move in the Game Details page could be included so that one could know one's current status.
Anyway, great to see a really substantive addition to wifight's capabilities!
cheers
geoff
Last edited by trgeoff; 04-24-2008 at 03:06 AM.
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