I think New Zealand is +12 GMT/UTC with fixes according to DST.
So now it's +13 GMT/UTC.......

Well dreaming is not bad....:-)
But who knows, one day this may happen.......

Human beings consist of 10^14 selfish cells that only care for their own replication.
So how would you expect a human not to be selfish and be able to accept others different opinions, from their own?

Also don't forget that our DNA carries many common elements from our "wild-acting" animals. Our behaviour in general of course is not like hyenas, but sometimes............

Since i have been transformed to a poor Pawn, until i renew my membersip in about 10-20 days, what will happen to my fellowship membership?
I will be deleted from there? I can't even read the boards there:-(

Today 28 October 2004 my main page has this message:
"Warning! Your Brain Rook membership level will expire on 27. October 2004. You have -1 days left to renew your membership."

-1 days!!!!!! Very funny............

As my credit card has some problems, i can't renew right now my membership. I will do it at 10-20 November(the date my bank said that the problem will be fixed). But what this bizzare message means? :-)

Thanks BIG BAD WOLF. You are the man.....!

You are right. It has the "do you want to remove the board.....".
But i don't dare to remove it, to see if i can add it again.

But no, since i can add "The Chess Club" there, something else must happening.......

It seems that since i had these before, they remained there.
But due to a mistake of me that removed the "The Gothic Chess Ladder: Enter the Vortex" discussion board from the list of favourites now i can't bring it back so i have been confused. But why i can't have it there? It's annoying.....

Why i can't add the discussion boards of some fellowships to my favourite boards?

For example i can't add discussion board of "The Gothic Chess Ladder: Enter the Vortex" or "Debate club" to the list of my favourite boards, while i can add the discussion board of "The Chess Club" for example to my favourite discussion boards.

While the "button" that says add this to favourite board, appers at The Chess Club fellowship, it doesn't appear at the other......

"Warning! Your Brain Rook membership level will expire on 27. October 2004. You have 13 days left to renew your membership."

I will renew my membership anyway, but since i'm too curious what if i don't renew it or i renew it after 27 October? I'm playing at more than one tournaments (the limit a Pawn must have is one tournament) so A)what would happen with my tournaments? Also B)what if i had more than 20 games(the limit a Pawn must have). What would happen in these 20+ games?

Although i didn't know him, it is always sad to hear such news. I hope one day we will meet him somewhere.....

Does these new ways of payment, will have as an option that with a Credit Card?

I ask this as it's the only way i can renew my account. I have 5 months more but i'm just curious....

Doubling cube!!!!! Yeah! This would make Backgammon here MUCH more interesting.......
It seems not a big change but actually IT IS A HUGE CHANGE! Just my opinion.

Of course if you rolled a double:
You have to use the maximum number of your 4 EQUAL playable numbers.
And not different of course as i said before:)

The rules are simple.

If you rolled a double:
You have to use the maximum number of your 4 different individual numbers. (You had to use all 4 numbers if you can, if not you have to use 3, if not you have to use 2 etc.....)

If you didn't rolled a double:
You have to use both 2 numbers if you can.
If you can move one number but not the other, then move this.
And if you can use any of the 2 but not both of them, then you have to play the higher number.

Well i used only one dice, while i could use both, to test if the system will accept it. And suprisingly it did! Sorry about that.

Anyway, as i'm very pedantic with game rules:
IT IS A BIG DEAL THIS BUG. In the game of Backgammon you have to use the maximum number of your rolled numbers to have a legal move. So this game here, cannot be called Backgammon. Of course with the agreement you said, that the players must play it, although they have the option to do the opposite, the game can be called Backgammon again. So all the players must know about it! Perhaps you should write it to the game rules of Backgammon. Sorry if i seem too pedantic but i always want to be 100% accurate.

In this Backgammon game:
http://www.brainking.com/game/ShowGame?g=343515
at move 32 i had to play 64. As it is well-known the rules for Backgammon say that: IF IT IS POSSIBLE I HAD TO USE BOTH 2 (or 4 if i had a double) NUMBERS OF MY DICE TO PLAY A LEGAL MOVE.
Well i had played only the 4, while i could play the 6 also. And Brainking AI accepted this.
What is going on.......?

<>I do however find it interesting why someone who >is a known (by admission) program user would >start questioning ratings systems etc. Maybe it >would be fairer to have Fencer reset your BKR >Chessmaster so that you can start out playing >fairly all the time.
>Do you still use programs?

Well i want to know about BKR formula because i'm a curious man and i like mathematical formulas anyway.
Also (and this is interesting) i had two games at Backgammon with one person. The one was lost and the other was won and both of them was one move(by me) before the end. So which one i had to play first. The one i'm losing so my BKR would drop and his will increase, so that i would have bigger difference from him and when i win the other i would have a higher BKR than that i had at the beggining? Or the opposite? Or it doesn't matter? I will search a bit about this. NO i'm not a BKR-addicted, i just doing this because i like to play with numbers and mathematics.


As for cheating: I play here and generally Chess, Gothic Chess, Backgammon, Maharajah Chess and Reversi 8x8. While i find the first 4 easy to play with a human logic, i find Reversi 8x8 a very crazy-complicated game in which no clear plan you can make to play it correctly. I know some rules about mobility(to have less pieces at the middlegame is good), some patterns in the corners and many opening moves, but yet all these doesn't make me feel comfortable with the game and if i look into one position i'm not so sure who is better. I have written a program (still on beta stage) and it's rather strong although it plays with reduce force, and i've used it to play Reversi 8x8 here (Not all moves by it - mainly most moves was mine but when i thought i had troubles and i didn't know what to do i used it).
BUT i thought ALL other people here who play Reversi 8x8, are doing the same thing as the game is too crazy to play it alone. After one game with someone i admitted that i used my program, after he asked me if i used Zebra, thinking that telling him it is not something bad. Now that i know almost all people don't use a program to play i've stopped playing Reversi 8x8 and the 3 games i have running right now, i play them by myself. (There was one clever person who chalenged me at Reversi8x8 and used a program(i think) to test if i still use my program after the noise at Reversi boards for me and at the beggining i played alone but because his behaviour was hypocritical and he thought i didn't understand him, i used it again to see his reaction....)

Anyway as in 80% of my Reversi 8x8 games i used my program, i believe it's fair all my Reversi 8x8 games to be deleted because my BKR and wins record is not something which represent my Reversi 8x8 skills. Do you think that someone who wanted to cheat would admit after the game and now that he was using a program and all his games to be deleted at Reversi 8x8? I hate cheating and that was the reason i stopped playing at Yahoo games, Chess (From 2001 and after i always lose).

For other games i play, i don't use a program to play as in Gothic Chess there is only one program which plays G.C that had stopped working in my PC but the main reason is that even if it worked i don't find it fair to play with it, for Chess i could never use a program to play without my opponent know it, at Backgammon i don't need one obviously "I'm from Greece if you understand:)" and i'm an master at it and for Maharajah i solved this game so i don't need....
But generally all these games are understandable by me except Reversi 8x8, so i find it totally unfair to use a program to play them. I'm not someone who wants to win and his purpose of life is to win by any way. (My semi-purpose of life is some aliens to arrive at earth, see the solution of (Gothic)Chess, see the solution of 3N+1 problem, e.t.c..). I just want to play good games and have fun, although i don't like to lose of course. I find unfair to play with computer at Reversi 8x8 too, but i thought this is what is happening at this game due to it's complexity. Now i know this is not true i've stopped.
Someone asked me if i use Chessmaster for playing Chess. No i don't use it of course. I have this for my username as Chessmaster is my favourite program.

Forgive me i was not so detailed. I had to
write a few more things:):)

From Jason: "I think what Chessmaster1000 wanted to know was that if the same method was used for all types of games on here ."

Yes this AND what is the method for the calculations....

Well i didn't know where to post this question, so forgive me if this is off topic.
I want to ask for the complete method for calculating the BKR in the games of Chess, Gothic Chess and Backgammon. I know that it's the same with that of the US Chess Federation formula, but calculating it this way, the results are not the same. So something must be different. Can a knowledgeable (Fencer or anyone else...) person solve my question?

Thanks.