In looking through the some of the finished amazons games, I got very confused about who was playing what color -- the colors of the players reported on the graphical board view don't seem to agree with the ones listed in the SGF-style game record that the TXT link gives you.
And is there any chance that the amazons display could use a checkerboard (instead of all the squares being the same color)? Maybe it's just me, but I think a checker pattern really helps in thinking out diagonal moves.
I think the problem of which player is which occurs as well in the GWG. I always look at the points as follows... I check who has passes (white or black), I look which color has to move (which tells me which color I am), and then I use those together to deduce if I have the .5 or the .0 in my score, to know if I'm winning or not. Either I miss a simple fact, or everyone is confused about it.
I do not know about Amazon (which I don't know how to play, and have not had time to learn yet), but for the word game, a simple solution would be in the section where the names are, there are 2 "blue" boxes. Make one black, and one white - to match which score is which..... Otherwise for me also, it is tricky to look at old games and try to figure out who is the white score, and who is the black score.
Well, I didn't mean that the web interface for amazons was confusing about who was black or white. It just doesn't agree (in fact, it seems to always be the opposite) with what the TXT game record says in the PB[] and PW[] fields. Looked like a bug to me.
Little Golem