If you go to Ratings page, you will see a list of top rated players of each game type. Playing with some of them is ALMOST like playing against a computer :-D

I am also preparing a new way of searching, there is still one unused menu item in the left column :-)

I plan to make a fellowship reorganization.

Radiant: No. You have 30 days for each year, nothing more.

Vesele Vanoce

The total is reset on January 1st.

Yes, you have 30 days for each year.

Liquid restarted the application server, it should help. I hope so :-)

Yes, there were some problems with a network card or driver. I don't guarantee that they are over but we are doing what we can do.

Damned computers. Something goes wrong only when we are sleeping.

Is it better now?

Radiant: There is no backgammon tourney, only two chess tournaments.

Yes.

Errrrm, it seems that I forgot to add some "sort by" clause ;-)

No need to use new.brainking.com anymore.

Steve: That was probably because of Liquid tuning the firewall. I had the problems too.

It was not a crash, only a short inactivity because of firewall management. I am sure that 20 minutes of server being down is worth improving the overall security.

Just a second :-)

What rugby variation?

Bill Bevins: Should be done.

offense of line: Whoever you are, please don't create accounts only for posting. Each person can have just one account.

Please read our Privacy Policy [the link is at the bottom of each page]. It never was broken and never will be. Nobody except me and Liquid can access the BrainKing database. It is a basic rule of each site administrator and BrainKing is not an exception.

Eriisa: I'll transfer it to someone else. Myself, probably :-)

noholdbarred: It is planned for the new version.
Uil: Forever. But it is also a subject to change.

Glad to hear that :-)

Yes, edit/delete buttons have been temporarily removed for pawns.

pyloric valve: Everybody who wants to spend money for that is authorized to do that. If somebody gives you $50 and you agree to turn your account to Brain Pawn, it is your choice. Until anything else is announced at Server News, it has nothing to do with me.

... I am trying to write an easy answer for everyone:

1) There are no threats. It's nonsense. There is one general rule - all significant changes are always announced at Server News, nothing else can be taken as an official statement of BrainKing staff.
2) Since there is more involved than many people know and most of these "secret" issues are very personal and private, I will not reveal them until the proper time comes.
3) This is mostly a site to play games. Nobody is limited in that, whatever is written on any board. The majority of BrainKing users simply play games and don't argue on discussion boards. And they are happy, aren't they?

Please take it as my final answer and don't ask me for more. When more public info is available, I will post it at Server News.

Hey guys,
use private messages for your argument. Harley will delete it anyway.

Can be done as well.

BK 2.0 will handle these situations smarter - all internal links will be automatically converted to relative URLs.

Thanks harley. It seems that you know some BK features better than me :-)

noholdsbarred: I will check it.

What speculations? Until something like that is announced at Server News, there are no changes in BrainKing staff.

Linda: Because it has no sense on private boards. Of course, I have to implement the "remove this user from the fellowship" feature as well.

noholdsbarred: It cannot be done over a night. New and better board system is in development as a part of new and better BrainKing application itself. Don't worry, I write down all good ideas and implement them when I have time for it.

Will you please stop opening this subject again and again?
For the last time I say that I always do what is the best for this site. If several people think that it is not true, it's their problem, not mine.

It was before I met her.

It's my favourite one. During my vacation in Scotland [some years ago] I've visited the distillery. Very nice place with very nice smell, I must say ;-)

A glass of Glenfiddich will do the trick ;-)

I will find a solution. Since I have a flu, it won't be done immediately, of course.

bwildman: Let me finish the final version first.

What way to be?

I don't want to have this board polluted, important messages will disappear very soon.

You don't have to use new.brainking.com any longer. Since all tests have proven that everything works great, both new.brainking.com and (www.)brainking.com point to the same location now.

Yeah, the board system needs some tuning.

It is usually a problem of cookies. Some browsers don't delete them when they receive a request from the server to do that.

Have you tried to delete all BrainKing cookies?

chattytea: I've just tried to log in and log out with both Internet Explorer and Netscape. Everything works. What do you use?

Dorabill: What do you mean "pretty new here"? You are on BrainKing since 13th February 2003 :-)
About the Loop Chess possible bug, can you give me a game ID where this situation happened? I've never seen something like you describe. And, from the source code point of view, it should not be possible :-)