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5. September 2006, 01:20:05
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: ludo
snowhugs: In ludo, you roll one die per turn, right? In this case, the chance of not rolling a six each turn is 5/6, and the chance of not rolling a six for n turns is (5/6)^n. The chance of any 32 rolls not including a six is, therefore, (5/6)^32, which equals about 0.3%. So, such should happen sometimes. :)

10. October 2005, 20:07:17
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: BK ratings
Bry: "The fact is it is now correct." Wasn't that said repeatedly about the old system too? :)

28. September 2005, 01:51:03
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: BKRs and Backgammon
WhisperzQ: 200-300 games can take a long time to play in a turn-based environment. Many game types don't have any players who haved played that many games (eg Jungle, Fast Espionage, One Way Checkers).

28. September 2005, 00:47:26
BuilderQ 
First, resigning on the first move doesn't count as a loss for rating purposes.

Second, besides the number of games that have been played, another factor is the ratings of those who were played... especially for the first few games. This has worked in my favour in Anti Line4. :)

13. September 2005, 03:21:25
BuilderQ 
Subject: What's up?
I can't reach www.brainking.com, only brainking.com?

29. August 2005, 20:23:05
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: Brain points
Rose: Exactly, no mention of a Knight earning anything for a new Rook.

29. August 2005, 20:16:29
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: Brain points
My interpretation of the Brains page is that you have to be a Rook to get anything for referring a new Rook. So tell your friends to choose Knight instead. :)

19. August 2005, 00:43:01
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: Anyone else..
Yes, I can't seem to make 7. ... b1 in this Line4 game, though I'm not having trouble with my other games.

15. August 2005, 04:47:10
BuilderQ 

15. August 2005, 03:47:18
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re:
Saruman: <a href=http://www.url.com/page.html>text to click on</a>

8. August 2005, 19:56:09
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re:
reza: As playBunny said, bold italics are acheived by nesting the tags.

Color... let me test: <font color="red">test</font>

29. May 2005, 01:26:59
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: vacation days
Bluefin: As stated on http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=10:
6) The player who does not make a move before the current round deadline (similar to a timeout), automatically uses the same amount of points as in the previous round. Warning! No days off (weekends, vacations, holidays) are applied in this game.

12. May 2005, 03:02:28
BuilderQ 
Subject: Cloak mode
If you sort the "Who is online" list by "Action," I note that those players using cloak mode are scattered throughout the list. I guess they are still ordered according to their last action, even though that action is hidden. So, this is a workaround to find out what cloaked players are doing! :)

8. May 2005, 03:51:09
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re:
Vikings: 2700

15. March 2005, 03:45:36
BuilderQ 
Seriously, I'm having no problems with IE 6.0

15. March 2005, 02:08:04
BuilderQ 
Or you could download Lynx, and you wouldn't have to worry about any images ever again!

6. March 2005, 20:25:10
BuilderQ 
The server news does not even name the 13 players, you know.

3. January 2005, 05:45:06
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: Bug?
The "Last 10 finished games" only includes those finished in the current year.

14. November 2004, 21:39:02
BuilderQ 
My line4 rating never increases by more than 8 points, so it is stable. But I can get those 8 points from a win against a 2000 player or a 2300+ player, it makes no difference.

If there were all these fractional points that I am getting, sometimes I should get +9?

And the game with TheBig O that I mentioned was Spider Line4, played when my rating was provisional.

14. November 2004, 21:29:21
BuilderQ 
Subject: Or how about this:
"The game is a draw.

BuilderQ: old BKR = 2061, new BKR = 2061 (0)
TheBig O: old BKR = 2430, new BKR = 2430 (0)"

14. November 2004, 21:22:43
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: Ratings
"The game is a draw.

BuilderQ: old BKR = 2319, new BKR = 2319 (0)
sprayman: old BKR = 1962, new BKR = 1962 (0)"

With this sort of rating difference, how could our ratings only change by fractions?

14. November 2004, 21:10:54
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: Ratings
Why is it that I can draw rated games with players rated hundreds of points above or below me, without either my rating, or my opponent's rating, changing? Which of BBW's points explains that?

14. November 2004, 20:29:16
BuilderQ 
Subject: Ratings
Why doesn't BrainKing use a simpler rating formula, which produces reasonable results while being easy to understand? See http://www.uschess.org/cc/ccratefl.php

14. November 2004, 17:02:04
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: about points again
The rating system's great, I can draw a game with someone rated 357 points below me and not lose any points!

30. August 2004, 17:11:41
BuilderQ 
Yes, I agree.

30. August 2004, 17:01:08
BuilderQ 
Subject: Deleting games
The reasoning is explained on this page.

30. August 2004, 03:57:36
BuilderQ 
So if nobody else can see it... what's the point?

30. August 2004, 02:38:31
BuilderQ 
Where on a profile page is date of birth shown? I don't recall ever seeing that.

27. August 2004, 01:09:42
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re:
Yes, thanks Fencer.

26. August 2004, 20:45:46
BuilderQ 
Fencer, could you look at http://brainking.com/game/ShowGame?g=435602? In this game of Screen Chess, my opponent was missing a pawn from the start (though we didn't notice it at first). Could something be done to correct this?

22. August 2004, 22:03:01
BuilderQ 
Subject: Threads
Responses would be easier to find if BrainKing used a threaded message board, like GoldToken. :)

14. August 2004, 00:56:11
BuilderQ 
Yes

14. August 2004, 00:52:19
BuilderQ 
"viewing store"

4. August 2004, 17:25:38
BuilderQ 
The outcomes of matches are shown as the opposite of what they should be.

4. August 2004, 17:06:27
BuilderQ 
Hey, I see that the winners of my last ten games are now stated on my profile. :) Great, maybe the next step could be showing who won correctly.

31. July 2004, 02:57:54
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: When did this happen?
And Reversi 10x10, Nackgammon, and Halma 10x10 are the ratings shown on the boards which include them along with other variants.

31. July 2004, 02:46:24
BuilderQ 
Subject: Re: When did this happen?
Check the profile of someone who posted on that board to see which of their ratings is shown. It's Dark on the Battleboats board and Crazy on the Screen and Crazy Screen Chess board.

31. July 2004, 02:26:20
BuilderQ 
Subject: When did this happen?
I see that posters' ratings are now shown on the game boards. :)

27. July 2004, 18:07:47
BuilderQ 
Hmmm, okay. I followed danoschek's link and tried to use that site to translate the whole "Bug tracker" page from Czech to English. Since most of that page was in English to begin with, the translation was entertaining. The Czech parts were translated strangely (Nefunguje scheme her acts?hellen, které stave off solely to mewed), and the English parts translated back into English included things like changing "BIG BAD WOLF" into "BIG BAD Tungsten." And "Date" became "Woodpecker"! Maybe this sort of thing does belong on the joke board. :)

27. July 2004, 17:19:54
BuilderQ 
Is the czech word for wolf the same as for tungsten?

25. July 2004, 22:05:03
BuilderQ 
When I define a new game with a rating restriction, it still shows that my opponent will be "any player." Shouldn't it show that my opponent must have a rating within the parameters I selected? Looking at my invitations waiting for response, I would like to able to remind myself how I defined them. And maybe others seeing them would like to know what restrictions I made?

24. July 2004, 18:51:10
BuilderQ 

24. July 2004, 18:37:29
BuilderQ 
Maybe there should be negative S-B, in which losses to weaker players matter more than to stronger ones?

23. July 2004, 23:04:23
BuilderQ 
He probably gained more than you lost, but since he was still unrated after the game, you could not see the change.

21. July 2004, 02:08:02
BuilderQ 
Subject: GothicInventor's rating in chess
Well, he won all his games so far, so that is evidence that he is a stronger player than any of his 4 opponents, who had quite high ratings. There is no evidence yet that any of those 4 (or any other player) is stronger than him.

18. July 2004, 18:46:57
BuilderQ 
Subject: User Agreement
Don't most sites' user agreement say something about how everything users do or write becomes the eternal property of the site all across the universe? Shouldn't BrainKing have something like this ?

13. July 2004, 17:24:47
BuilderQ 
Elo is the rating system named after Prof. Arpad E. Elo, which the United States Chess Federation uses.

8. July 2004, 17:51:59
BuilderQ 
I guess random positions are good for battleboats though, since that game involves no strategy anyway.

8. July 2004, 17:35:55
BuilderQ 
By the way, why are the pieces shown as black when I am placing them on the white side of the board?

8. July 2004, 17:34:03
BuilderQ 
Hmm, more messages are being written while I'm writing mine so that it isn't clear what I'm replying to.

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