well, i know it's not pleasant to hear it, but if nobody else is experiencing the problem, it's not likely to be an issue with the site.

if you're using webtv, i'd be suspicious of that. i know imupchucking isn't having the problem, so maybe it has to do with the model or age of your tv or something...but i've recently become friends with a webtv user and She says the frogs in Froglet look like little tied bags - they don't have any faces - and She can hardly tell one piece from another in Espionage, and She can't get to 80 percent of the websites i send Her the URLs to because webtv just can't handle them...so i get the impression the whole webtv system is just very horky and ill-behaved and it just up and does stuff like you're describing sometimes.

don't know for sure, but it's a thought...

There has to be a coding problem somehere on this site. I can now see once again!!!!!

oh. well then never mind that last bit i just said, keeshound... :)

yeah, rod, thank you - i just now went to the profile of a person with a golden rook and discovered what it is.

i too think they're working on the graphics...

but i still don't know why keeshound4's seeing a color change the rest of us don't seem to be seeing. but whatever the reason, kees, i'd recommend following Viking's advice and going to your settings page and changing the background color.

A no go with my settings....they are already on a white background. Still some of the discussion boards are shown on a white background and others are not.....still that darn charcoal grey which is fine for suits!

nothing on my settings has been changed since I got here and that wasn't yesterday!

I think they are working on the graphics..

All my other sites are fine including a terrific TV picture when I care to watch. All the colors are where they are suppose to be!!!

plantiger, a few people now have golden rooks... See the "Paid Membership" page for details.. I think they have been around about a week, or maybe 2... Last I checked, 6 people had them..

Could be your tv too :)

Kees, why don't you go to the setting page and change the background to white?

do all the other sites you visit look the same as ever? i'm just wondering if your monitor's blown a...a...whatever monitors blow. a monitory thing.

My eyesight isn't 20/20 as it used to be. Now you need it even better than that to see this site!

yeah, i don't see any color change either, except the membership icons - i've seen a yellow brain rook tonight. and my Amazons pieces aren't loading, which i suspect (but don't know) to be related. but everything else looks the same as it has for months or maybe even years (i don't remember what the site looked like years ago).

I am webtv and everything is fine tonight, but I was having lots of 'loading' type prblems last nite...

There has been no color change, but thats a nice idea... If you are not blind, why the capitols?

This site was fine last night.....a lousey color co-ordinator has taken over!!!

Forgive me for the misspelling of words.

color *change*?

yeah, there's nothing blurry on my screen...are you using webtv, by chance? or a ten-year-old and/or very cheap monitor?

THIS SITE COLOR CHANGE SINKS!

Seems to be fine to everyone else...

What in the world were you thinking of....a Charcoal gray page, with blue lettering and a blurred red for notices submitted to discussion boards? When are you going to invent new glasses to read all of this against a "NICE" backdrop??????

yes, either that, or Fencer is just busy sprucing up the graphics and those that have disappeared will be back and...etc., etc.

A checker player just complained of the same red X's. Has to be an internal problem.

i'm having the same problem, Lady T. - but because i'm on a Mac i get blue squares with white question marks in them. however, the graphics for what kind of membership a person has - like brain rook or brain knight or whatever - which weren't loading for me earlier are loading now (and the rook i just saw is yellow instead of white)...all of which leads me to suspect that Fencer is just busy sprucing up the graphics and those that have disappeared will be back and even schnazzier-lookin' than ever.

or at the very least, they'll be back. :)

graphics will not load.. all other games are fine.. just this one.. i get nothing but red x's

I guess you don't have to a member if you want to hack/change somebody's password :-)

would hacking members passwords and accessing their accts be a banning offence from BrainKing?

well...unless this person had access to the moderators acct,or possibly Fencers acct...I didnt think it possible either.

bwildman, as far as I know that isn't possible. Either a moderator did it or Fencer, theres no other way.

Yeah I know its the maximum, just wondered why its 2700, is there a reason behind that figure. I want to carry on up to 3000! :-(

how can a player unban himself from a public discussion board?
in other words...if the moderators nr Fencer unbanned them...how could they become unbanned?

M4TT : because 2700 is maximum what you can get :]

Why do the ratings points stop once 2700 is reached? does anyone know?

did you send Fencer a message?

I would like to play in Remembering Jestone tournament but can't. I am playing in another tournament but although I have lost and last moved ages ago the tournament is still running. I can't play another one until it is finished....unless, Fencer can release me from it as a special tribute to my old friend Jestone.

LOL the BK clock is ahead of the times it records, been like it for a while

for the help

shorter answers take less time to write Stevie ;)

(I just noticed: is the BK clock late or am I just running ahed of my own time? :))

yep LOL

give me 2 mins loup, it was something like 128, ill work it out again

128

said the number it took to win the game. I forgot to make a note of it. If any1 remembers can U pls tell me again. So that way if the person I'm play get past that number I can resign the game. TYVM for ur time./
:o{P

thanks Fencer ;o)

Yeah, later.

..or perhaps a possibility to select groups of games :Chessvariants,Gammon-games,Checker-games,other..
.?

I will add some pagination.

with all the new games available the list of waiting games has gone right up in numbers!..at the moment its 228...but being on NTL if i click on it to get a game my box freezes up and im off the net..
is there a way i can have lists of say 100 games..and then the others?..

like disscusion boards i have in 50's...it sure would help as i cant pick up open invites now ;o(

Yes.