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Herlock Sholmes: If you look at the rules for triple dice poker, which your game is a variant of, you will see that the score that you need is based on the upper section of the first column. In order to get the bonus for the second column, you need to multiply by 2, and to get the bonus for the third column, you need to multiply by 3.
Could someone explain to me the rule of bonus in this variant ? I am not getting it. You are suppose not to reach 84 points to get the bonus (this is the way I understand word "limit")?
In my game I scored way beyond 84 points in the third column and didn't get anything ....
Bwild: Yes, I succeed in doing it with friends but sometimes, I've enough to ask this. And friends often say yes because they are kind with me, but they can be bad players and do not like the game. We come back to what Purple said : people try to keep their rating the most higher possible, so a neutral program for training would be great.
Bwild: Yes, the variants are very . I just regret that here, we don't have a programme for people who want discover a game or else practise. I'm sure I would play more games, especially variants of checkers.
Mélusine: I have to agree with you. I'm terrible at some games...but I like to play,and I learn from the more experienced players who are willing to give me the time. chess and checkers is tough,due to the large number of program players..but the variants are great fun.
Purple: I agree, it's not fair from him to reject a game with you, but I think we must not impose an opponent on someone : he must be free to play with you or not. Nobody is dupe ; we often see, here, people who aren't fair (example : people who send an invitation to someone else just for raising their BKR). Me, I look at my rating, just to see the games where I have to progress, and just to have an idea, but I don't want to be prisoner of this rating, I don't forget that, 1st, I'm here for fun.
Folks, you need to be careful before putting this type of "stairs" thing into BK rules for non-stairs games; there are all kinds of potential nasty unintended consequences.
For example, this could inspire people to change their settings to not accept invitations.
Another downside is wanting to limit number of ongoing games (for non-rooks) in order to make space for a tournament you want to play in, but too many people want to invite you to games and you are forced to accept.
Similarly you might be trying to clear up your remaining games to go on a playing hiatus (a vacation or just to not get burned out on a particular game).
Another potential problem is being forced to play time controls you don't want to play, or match lengths you don't want to play, or single game invitations where your opponent has the side that has a huge advantage (e.g. battleboats plus).
Right now I have a few players on my blocked users list because they were abusive or obnoxious in some other way. I would hate to be forced to play them.
I'm sure there are other potential problems that others can think of. Anyway, I hope Fencer would be very careful before implementing any such "reform" to make sure it doesn't hurt more than it helps.
I have had similar problems with players who are number one ranked while I was number two ranked who refused to play me. It is frustrating. Fortunately for me though none of those rating differences were insurmountable the way the rating difference in checkers is....
Herlock Sholmes: maybe this could work: If an invitation is refused where both players have an established rating and the inviter has the lower rating and the rating difference is not all too big and the refuser has no good excuse (like being a pawn and playing the full number of games) and the players do not already play a game of this type or have played one short ago, then the ratings of the players are updated as if the game was played and had ended in a draw.
Purple: I think Bobby Fisher and Alekhine played the same "game" with others. They were the greatest after all. But in this case, maybe there should be some kind of provision or rule that the first guy cannot refuse playing the second one ? What do you think ?
Resher: For example I am #2 rated checkers BKR but can NEVER be #1 because the top guy will not play me..he only plays those he can beat and he can not beat me. So there is no way out.
When the number of players increases, the number of winners goes down. Of course, it's more difficult to win a tournament with a big number of players, and I think that this result has more value.
El Cid: Yes, there was a change in Mainland Portugal (not so in the islands) from GMT to CET around the time the Schengen Area was implemented, so as to keep the same time zone as most Schengen Area countries, resulting in the Mainland being 1 hour ahead of Madeira and 2 hours ahead of Azores. Though we didn't actually stop DST, we just didn't reverse DST in winter that year, making it the new standard time - the following years adopted DST normally, just one hour ahead.
They quickly moved it back as, since people were going to work in the dark, they were more tired in early morning and employers reported a decrease in productivity as a result. All the regulations in the world won't reform biology: human beings have an innate tendency to feel more sleepy when it's dark and to have trouble sleeping when there's too much light.
Nowadays, most compies run their servers on zulu or universal time (formerly called Greenwich Mean Time), without any DST. Thats makes administrating it easier. That has nothing to do with the issue here - different people have weeked at different times. Nothing can be done about that, because the earth is round, not flat. the server could consider everone's time zone, but that has ugly side effects: I have still weekend while you haven't, so you lose games against me on time while I don't have to even move at all. Friday night it's reversed of course. Also people could cheat another 'weekend day' out by setting their time zone to the earlest one (australia?) on Friday, so their weekend starts early, and on Sun change it to the latest zone (Hawaii or whatever). All ugly, so not good.