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What would be really useful or nice?

Posted By: Keene
Date: Monday, 20 July 2009, at 7:33 p.m.

1. A tutorial on how to manually enter a match into Snowie and GNU.

2. Archives of recorded matches - a centralized database somewhere, where if both players agreed to make it publicly accessible, then it can be made available for download.

3. (a) Some kind of automation tool for GNU to track your matches and error rates - something thats perhaps a little easier to use, and more functional than the built in one.

3. (b) Some database reporting extender - something to track over time how your ER is moving, and according to milestones too. e.g. 'Re-read Magriel', so you can see what happened to your error rates between these milestones.

4. Some clever OCR software to read recorded matches (video) and create an output text file in snowie or gnu format, eliminating the need to enter a match after its recorded live. Something that requires minimal user input would be best.

5. An online chouette scoring website thats fully configurable for your own set of rules, and works offline too.

6. Some fixed criteria for Giants of BG voting. I see far too many players in that list who shouldnt be there. (opinion!)

I am sure I could think of many more, but really. I just wanted to post this list in case anyone has already done any of these things, and would be willing to share. Honestly, I would be willing to pay for some of these things too - I am pretty sure that if enough people were willing to pay for one of these, then someone would go out and do it.

Perhaps an additional item should be here too:

7. An online backgammon wishlist that is fully updated regularly, with people willing to volunteer their time to doing the wishlist items.

Messages In This Thread

• What would be really useful or nice?
  Keene -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 7:33 p.m.
  • What would be really useful or nice?
    Matt Reklaitis -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:12 p.m.
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      Coolrey -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:44 p.m.
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        Matt Reklaitis -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 9:02 p.m.
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          Bill -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 9:35 p.m.
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            Seth -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 12:50 a.m.
            • What would be really useful or nice?
              Keene -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 12:55 a.m.
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                Seth -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 1:13 a.m.
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              Keene -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 1:03 a.m.
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              Jon -- Wednesday, 22 July 2009, at 8:10 a.m.
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          Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 9:53 a.m.
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            Matt Reklaitis -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 4:37 p.m.
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              Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 7:04 p.m.
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    Gregg Cattanach -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:17 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:44 p.m.