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13. February 2015, 20:40:17
david upshaw 
Subject: Re: New Moderator
rod03801: Yes. That would be great!

13. February 2015, 01:44:14
rod03801 
Subject: Re: New Moderator
david upshaw: I can take care of it, if you would like.

12. February 2015, 21:04:53
david upshaw 
Subject: Re: New Moderator
Gabriel Almeida: I don't know how to change the Moderator, but I'll try to figure it out. I am good with you taking over if there aren't any objections.

7. February 2015, 00:35:05
Gabriel Almeida 
Subject: Re: New Moderator
david upshaw: I would like, David!

6. February 2015, 16:34:19
david upshaw 
Subject: New Moderator
I had told Bill sometime back that I didn't have to time to serve a significant role on this board. Does anyone have an interest in being the Moderator?

6. February 2015, 16:32:05
david upshaw 
Very saddened by Bill's (Purple) passing. I've never met him in person, but I've played checkers him online for about 17 years. We first played on a site ItsYourMove and then we both came here. He will be missed.

26. January 2015, 03:11:19
rod03801 
Subject: Re: Bill past away. ( Purple )
ustica tnp: oh my goodness

26. January 2015, 01:42:45
ustica tnp 
Subject: Bill past away. ( Purple )
I have terrible news about are friends Bill.
he past away.
my condolence to is wife and family.

He will be missed greatly...

16. July 2011, 00:06:25
biggooner 
He is a great man

15. July 2011, 02:57:26
Stardust 
Subject: Re:
biggooner: wow...I guess checker playing is an O'Brien trait :-)

14. July 2011, 20:20:41
biggooner 
I may be behind the times as only just found it but this documentary is truly brilliant http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_checker_king/

12. July 2011, 21:01:16
ustica tnp 
Subject: Re:
Purple: bill look this game."http://brainking.com/en/ArchivedGameg=1973430&i=57" he play all way. only a sore loser play the way. i thin was pray if i time out...

12. July 2011, 14:10:47
Purple 
Subject: Re:
Stardust: Some of the best players can't do well at Giveaway checkers and some very poor players excel at Giveaway. I can't really understand why it is.

12. July 2011, 13:33:23
Stardust 
Subject: Re:
biggooner: It's apples and oranges...they play a different game and try to pass it off as checkers

12. July 2011, 11:04:08
Gabriel Almeida 
Subject: Re:
ustica tnp: Of course not! That is the point! :)

12. July 2011, 08:36:53
biggooner 
Subject: Re:
ustica tnp: Thats why seen you alll at tournaments.... oh silly me, maybe not

12. July 2011, 04:37:54
ustica tnp 
Subject: Re:
Purple: bill no one beat km club in any site. :)

10. July 2011, 01:43:14
rod03801 
Modified by rod03801 (10. July 2011, 01:45:57)
This board WILL NOT sink into personal fights. This is the ONLY warning. Thank you. As the Moderator said, the personal stuff will be dropped, and the topic will be Checkers. Not accusations back and forth. And, this will not be debated here either.

10. July 2011, 01:30:00
biggooner 
I am gooner but not on in a while so account closed, nice try lol

9. July 2011, 12:45:19
Purple 
Subject: Re:
Stardust: Of course.

9. July 2011, 03:28:06
Stardust 
Subject: Re:
Purple: There is a place called the real world where people actually sit across a board from their opponent and play a game or two of checkers. Not all games are played on computers, or with computers, for that matter.

8. July 2011, 23:13:00
Undertaker. 
Subject: Re:
Purple: Probably, you're pinchitos...he's. My mistake.

8. July 2011, 12:53:12
Purple 
Subject: Re:
biggooner<Why does your profile show you have never played any games with anyone? Are you using another nic? Let us drop the subject.

8. July 2011, 11:55:40
biggooner 
Subject: Re:
Gabriel Almeida: just saying how his game changes with the weather. So have no idea why he is preaching. Maybe he should practise what he preaches

8. July 2011, 11:28:47
Gabriel Almeida 
Subject: Re:
biggooner: That was the point of my message too! Cheating? Programs? For some players, "playing the game" is still the most important thing. That's nice. The others are trash, for me!

8. July 2011, 11:20:51
biggooner 
your getting boring purple, I have played you several times, and at times you make comp moves and other times your moves are inconsistent. To some people ratings are more important than the game

7. July 2011, 21:43:13
Gabriel Almeida 
Subject: Clean players

Wanna see how plays a "clean player"? See this game! It was won for me, after a hard fight. Skinny congratulated me for that. But, while talking to a friend, I made a stupid mistake, and lost it. Skinny noticed it, asked me what happened, and when I told him, he offered me the draw! That's what a great player do!


I resigned the game, because it was my mistake, but preciate skinny's attitud. That's because of players like skinny that BK it's still a good site.


6. July 2011, 17:42:08
Purple 
Subject: Re:
Darles Chickens: Programs play very predicatable lines but not.easy to spot. Many legitimate players use the same few moves so it takes lots of games to spot a user. A few years ago a player unashamedly sold his Checker programs right here on this site. The late, great Richard Fortman beat programs very often..so have some others.

6. July 2011, 17:08:03
Darles Chickens 
And if all have the knowledge about available programs, I think it would be easier to catch the cheaters and prevent the use...

6. July 2011, 17:01:25
Darles Chickens 
Subject: Re:
Purple: ok, let's put a stone on km's grave, never forgetting the evilness of a few (5, huh?)... Now, back to the first goal, and I hope you do have a word to say... It is regretable to use programs in our games!  It's not honest and this should be inculcated in everyone's conciousness. We can't prove with certainty that someone used a program against us, but we can decline a game against someone if we suspect he's using a program. The only way I have to check if someone's using a program is to analyse all moves and make a comparison. and even so it's very hard, because we have to run several programs. So, back to beginning, unless someone has a better idea, its all a question of conciousness...

6. July 2011, 16:15:40
Purple 
Subject: Re:
Darles Chickens: Out of 68 KM members there were 5 using programs. There were many more innocent than the few guilty. There were bans for multiple nics and ratings boosting..not for program use.

6. July 2011, 16:04:14
Darles Chickens 
Subject: Re:
Purple: I wonder...Why did you posted that km comment, if I only wrote that I would like everyone to know what programs are beeing used in checkers and anti-checkers games, to prevent cheating? I know you're a good person and your subconscious send you a message to discard yourself from that regretable group...But, as Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar's play and you very well quoted: "The evil that men do lives after them..the good is often interred with their bones", I guess km evil is very alive, because some players are still using such programs...

6. July 2011, 10:01:25
Gabriel Almeida 
Subject: Re:

Darles Chickens: I'm still blocked by Purple because I asked about KM group and "the possibility" of cheating... eheheheh. I see some bones up in the air, never interred! ;)


Yeah, programs are such an idiot way to win games. I can't understand why some people do it! I have my own theory, but I'll tell it to you in some other place, where my words can't be deleted, Mr. Darles. ;)


5. July 2011, 13:07:04
Purple 
Subject: Re:
Darles Chickens: The evil that men do lives after them..the good is often interred with their bones. So let it be with the KM. :)

5. July 2011, 12:29:16
Darles Chickens 
Subject: Re:
Purple: lol...as the saying goes: "you missed a good opportunity to be quiet". As we all know, km gang had a reputation (how can I say this in a soft way?...) at least questionable. Or maybe praiseworthy for those who only seek win, regardeless the means to achieve it...For me, using a program is always regrettable and shows lack of principles.

5. July 2011, 01:03:56
Purple 
Subject: Re:
Stardust: Program vs Program ends in draws 99 out of 100 times.

5. July 2011, 00:14:49
Stardust 
Subject: Re:
Purple: The KM members who beat those programs did so because they were using those programs

4. July 2011, 23:55:55
Purple 
Subject: Re:
Darles Chickens: I had KM members who regularly beat programs. They were that good.

4. July 2011, 16:03:24
Darles Chickens 
Modified by Darles Chickens (12. July 2011, 12:48:06)

I stopped playing regular checkers after finding that some of my opponents were using programs such as CakeManchester or Chinook to make their moves. So, I downloaded Cake Manchester, from Martin Fierz's homepage and now, when I want to play a good game, I do it against my machine. What I found a few months ago, was that Martin also developed a suicidal version for his Cake (here known as anti-checkers). I downloaded it too, and after playing some games against it, I found very familiar moves from games I had with two or three opponents, specially from ItsYousTurn.com. I surely hope that people will reconsider the use of such programs in their moves, or there will be no interest at all to keep playing those games here, against real players, when in reality we're doing that against a machine...



By the way, the site to download those programs: http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm 


14. January 2011, 20:42:42
Purple 
Subject: Re: Top Players
Modified by Purple (14. January 2011, 20:44:46)
rod03801: Never really checked it out. Thanks

14. January 2011, 17:59:48
rod03801 
Subject: Re: Top Players
Purple: Well, we have had Stairs for years now. (Same general idea as ladders)

http://brainking.com/en/Stairs

14. January 2011, 14:21:59
Purple 
Subject: Re: Top Players
rod03801: Do you think Fencer would reconsider setting up some ladders, maybe in chess, checkers and Backgammon to begin with? Goldtoken and It's Your Turn have them and anything they can do we can do better. Not so?

13. January 2011, 17:48:35
Gabriel Almeida 
Subject: Re: Top Players
Purple: Anyway, people are free to choose who they wanna play with. For several reasons. Time they use in a game, for example. Or for "friend affinities". Or even other reasons. I like to play against some good players because I trully believe they are "fair players" and I can always learn something with them. I believe they also like to play with me.

13. January 2011, 17:45:48
Gabriel Almeida 
Subject: Re: Top Players
Purple: I can understand Why... I wouldn't play against you either. Or against Pinchitos, or against Ustica...

13. January 2011, 17:23:26
Purple 
Subject: Re: Top Players
Hexis: I am speaking in general. I can't rise in the rankings because no top player will play me.

13. January 2011, 17:12:35
Hexis 
Subject: Re: Top Players
Purple: Do you mean any particular players?

13. January 2011, 16:36:21
Purple 
Subject: Re: Top Players
rod03801: Then once every 89 days you can play an EASY win from someone rated 50th and your rating will be unaffected. Too easy to manipulate and I would like stiffer penalties for inactive players.

13. January 2011, 15:44:20
rod03801 
Subject: Re: Top Players
Purple: Actually, quite a while ago it was implemented that after 90 days of not completing a particular game, a rook will be hidden on the rankings. Once they complete another game, they "re-appear". You will notice on your own profile, that each game that has a "red" date, you do not have a ranking in.

For pawns, I believe it is 30 days.

13. January 2011, 14:45:42
Purple 
Subject: Top Players
What is a person to do when the top player "does not wish to be invited to any games?" He will stay there forever with no one ever having any hope of overtaking him. Makes a maockery of the rankings.

28. September 2009, 14:12:58
AbigailII 
Subject: Re: Question About the Rules of International Checkers
Helibore: I doubt that is the case. After all, if you make a mistake, and the stones are quickly removed the situation is the same. Furthermore, in any serious competition, players must write down their moves anyway.

No, the reason is that you are not allowed to jump a stone twice. If you make a multiple capture using a queen, if you would remove the stones during the move, it may be that it appears the queen has a free path, instead of being blocked by an already taken stone.

While speaking on this subject, shortly after International and other national checker variants appeared, I asked Fencer to make it on the move confirmation visible which checkers had been taken in this move (for instance, by showing them with a blue border). He answered positively, but it still hasn't happened. :(

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