Since a legal thing is a legal thing and i am as pedantic as it goes, i call it fair!
Clever way of winning, yet i would not put him on my friends or approve his behaviour.....
I could call him a moron but i won't, since the moderators silently spy everything from above
He thinks he does something clever and he admires himself believeing that he is a superior brain that is fooling everyone, but the only thing he does is to spend his time on stupid things while he isn't realising that his time is coming to an end. The day that he will realise this, would be too late.....
On the other hand he may be an 80 years old man, that did everything in his life and wants to try something new!

Pythagoras: We discussed him on the backgammon board, too (Top 9 messages from the link). Some of his opponents don't realise the implications of the 11-hour-zero-bonus clock that he uses. Others think he's using that clock because he wants a fast game but discover that he stalls until they cannot stay at their computer. Then he moves and their clock runs out while they're asleep or at work. Strictly speaking it's legal but I consider him a cheat.

Oh, so he is a player that is based on winning on time? LOL! That is quite new way of winning.....

Pythagoras: if you go to the backgammon board you´ll find the reason for it...

I've seen the statistics of robtoo for Battleboats and he has 87 wins and 2 loses.

That can't be real since battleboats is a game of mainly luck! But i've discovered the reason. From his 87 wins the 79 were wins by time out of the opponent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So i wonder what kind of voodoo makes to his opponents and they run out of time?

Just kidding about the voodoo-part but i still wonder......

pauloaguia & Emmett: The next interview is with Pedro Martinez and should be soonish

emmett: Mine will be on its way to you soon! I just sent harley my answers.

harley When's the next interview coming up?

merry christmas and happy new year.

would say that everytime I reply OK thats enough. or back to chuckers starting something when I talk BYE see every1 next year...
:o(

ok thats enough, thanks :O)

mrloupcity: Is someone feeling guilty? LOL

mrloupcity: I didn´t say you are trying to time control. I only explained to Marfitalu the reason about a big time left in that game.

Matarilevich: So u think I'm trying to time control. Ask every1 I'm playin I try to make a move in games at least every 2 days if not 2 or 3 times a day. I'm going out of town next week and just put the rest of the month on vac. SORRY if u think it's time controling. I just don't need the vac days left. hehehe
:o{)

oops forgot back to my couch in the corner to hide poof.

Marfitalu: It´s correct. Check the profile of MrLoupCity. He has all days until 3 of January as vacation because he has monday and thusday as weekend days and he still has vacation days. The other game, i can´t see it but it can be the same situation.

Marfitalu: he also has different weekend days set

Marfitalu: Your opponent(s) have put many days as vacation days which is why you are seeing the strange days left for some games.

heavenlyemma: You're close to the truth there. My current sleeping pattern has left me very fuzzy-brained.

playBunny: You've got no brains either nahhh

Eriisa: Aye. I seem to recall that from when I read that page back when I joined. It makes sense, too, as "referral" implies new members.

heavenlyemma: I'm not sure, to be honest... but I've known it for quite a while.

Eriisa: Has it always been like that?

Brains are given for new memberships only.

http://brainking.com/en/Brains

Jules: If they couldn't be bothered to give me them when I gave my money to this site what makes you think I want them now? It should of been automatic geesh.

BIG BAD WOLF: that maybe easy for you as regards to the clock... I have several time zones to deal with .. my kids live 3 hours going the other way and I work graveyard shift.. .so I never know wheither it's day or night even when I look out the window.. lol..

My missus heavenlyemma (ID 1131) bought me 6 months membership as a Christmas present.
She's yet to get credited her brains.

Not that she hasn't got any brains

Eriisa: it has been corrected.. thanks

ScarletRose: LOL, send a message to Fencer about the brains.

I use that change ID all the time when ppl send me their membership fees.

BIG BAD WOLF: Thanks guys.. just finished it and finished updating PayPal..

I also noticed.. I wasn't credited for brains from a purchase of a friends membership back in Feb 05.. I noticed this when I was reviewing my account at Paypal and the Brains I have currently.. the dates don't match up.. months off actually.. I also should get the brains from this purchase as well.. I put this to note on the shopping basket section for notes.. Does this not get to whomever is assigned the deed of crediting brains?? LOL

I am LOL cause on one of the note sections I mentioned to please send my brains to my account! LOL Sounds funny unless you play at BK..

ScarletRose: Like Princess Alison said, if you change the UserID to your mom's, it should go to here.

Plus during the PayPal process, there are places for "notes" - you can repeat what you want there just to make sure - since they will see the notes along with the payment.

ScarletRose: I am pretty certain that if you put your mums ID in where yours is, this will pay for the membership for you mum, but dont quote me on it.

Okay.. I wish to get my mom a membership.. I noticed on the Paid Membership Link in the row of my membership it has an option to "change" and allows me to actually search for a user and replace my name with that ID.. now.. I wanna make sure if I do this my membership doesn't just transfer over to her.. but, it would allow me to go in and buy a membership.. for her..

Hopefully this isn't too confusing.. whichever way is easiest please let me know..

alanback: Me, i have a marvellous sense of humour, where did u get that from LOL

Princess Alison: Call on that marvelous sense of humor and laugh it off :)

lovelysharon: I've set my clock on BrainKing to be the same as the server/Fencer times (GMT +01:00) - that way I can easly see when the new server day will start. (If I need to know what time it is where I'm at, I can look at my clock on the wall) :-)

SMIRF Engine: I'd like more information about a player's rate of playing too. The number of moves per game per day would be useful. I'd even like there to be a new stats table listing people by this value. We have the most number of moves per day so why not a speed of playing table? Ideally different figures would be available for each game type, or perhaps variant, but even just the single all-encompassing figure would be most useful.

emmett: if anyone has taken my post as complaining..sorry you are mistaken.. I was supporting a feature the is important to me and why I thought it should not be changed.. .. I have seen changes happen here with the mere mention of it by one or two people.. just thought i would speak my view ... I'll be quiet now..

BIG BAD WOLF: now that I think of it BBW.. I must have had this happen to me twice in 2 days and lost like 4 days in 2... I know that when I do go away and set my vacation days I've learned to set the day before I leave as well as the day after I get back just to cover the time zone differences..

Princess Alison: You'd have to resign 5 times to get rid of the match.

emmett: resigning wouldn't even help you. the whole section has to be finished before you can join another tournament. (or you could ask Fencer very nicely, he can free you from the tournament)

I wonder if somebody can help me, i am currently in a "5 wins match" and have won the last 4 matches. My opponent seems to move once a week, which is getting on my nerves to be honest. The 5th game has started but no moves have been taken as yet, if i were to resign from the 5th game, would that mean that i lose the actually match all together???

emmett: It can't be said often enough. Knights who only play a subset of the games (eg. the gammons or in your case, chess) get a raw deal regarding touernaments. There should be a set number of tournamants, not one per game type.

SMIRF Engine: i like the idea about those stats :)

part edited as it continued a misunderstanding :)

each tournament states the time a move can take ... consider that when you join a tournament

(i wont play any tournaments with 1 day per move .. i rarely play a tournament without free days or fixed weekends only .. i sometimes play tournament with 3 days per move .. i like the longer tournaments ... although those can finish quite fast as well ... of course all this depends on the game type as well :)

emmett: I have had similar problems within a tournament. It would be helpful if the system would supply us with an average answering time for each player and game variant, and thus also would enable filtering such very slow players from tournaments.

tonyh: hmm personally i have nothing against options ... but i thought this discussion was about changing the complete system (and not keeping the old system around :))

3 weeks holiday would cost you about 10 to 15 vacation days

what would happen to someone who first choses to have the full 30 days, and then later that year (when he used about 20 vacation days) switches to a couple of days per month ?

playBunny: Many thanks, indeed!!! It is astonishing how affronted people get!
I appreciate that the programming of this alternative may be tricky - but it would be very useful. Having 3 weeks holiday on a remote camp-site in Cornwall tends to destroy vacation time!!

LOL. It's amazing how so many people seem upset by this suggestion! Tony's request has nothing to do with anybody who is happy with the way things are. He would like an *option*, an alternative - one that would suit him, and probably others, better. [shrug]

tonyh: You are absolutely right about the carry-over, sorry. Anyway, my comparison with salary was an extreme one. If you use all your money for the year, you are in real trouble. If you use all your vacation days, all you risk is losing some games.
I should quit silly comparisons and just state that IMHO the current policy is fine, maybe just a bit dangerous for those who use auto-vacation.

furbster: this year i had 2 vacations: 1 week in spring and 3 weeks in summer

in november i still had about 20 days vacation left on this site ... i saved those in case i would need them around christmas or for unforseen circumstances

i renewed in november and now have 30 days left .. which i wont use at all :)

good use of weekend days (you can change them once a week) helps a lot to preserve vacation days
have a look at your games and when they time out .. try to move in all your games just before your vacation .. if your fastest game has 3 days per move then you wont have to set vacation days for the first 2 days, you can set the weekend for the 3rd and 4th day, this will save you 4 vacation days already. be sure to have automatic vacation days if something goes weird (you might get into a next round of a tournament with 1 day per move, or someone starts a stairs game with you (although you should retire the stairs while on vacation)

also try to figure out when your opponent will move ... if (s)he will move the day after tomorrow, then you wont have to worry about your game timing out before that (plus the time you have for the move yourself)

try to finish the fast games before your vacation and only join games with longer times per move

use fixed vacation days when you will surely need them as this can preserve vacation days which would have been used for the games which would time out the day after

dont set a vacation day for the first day you will be back .. although you might not have a chance to make a move ... you might have a chance to do so .. which would have made it a waste .. let automagic vacation take care of that day if needed :)

all this helps a lot to preserve vacation days :)

have fun on your holidays!!!! :)

I agree that 30 days is enough! Some people abuse that, so heaven forbid giving us more to use!